Athens is aiming for help

Greece is already working on gaining access to a loan, writes the left-liberal daily La Repubblica in view of the talks between the International Monetary Fund, the EU and the government in Athens: "The goal of the talks is to fix the details for financial aid and above all further measures for recovery that the Greek government must introduce in exchange for help. Not for nothing does the Greek finance minister George Papakonstantinou foresee several weeks of negotiations with the talks reaching their conclusion 'by May 15'. For on May 17 the ministers could release the first instalment of the loan. ... The fact that France has set aside 3.9 billion euros of its 2010 budget for this purpose, which corresponds to the French portion of the EU loan, also corroborates this."

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