Athens (AFP) - the Minister of Finance of Greece George Papaconstantinou, said Sunday that he was confident on the reception of the next tranche of aid, rejecting an article from German magazine throw doubt on the transfer.
The head of the Finance Ministers of the euro area, Jean-Claude Juncker, warned last week that International Monetary Fund may block the next edition of 12 billion dollars-euro ($17 billion), the fifth instalment in a 110-billion loan package euro agreed for the indebted countries.
Der Spiegel reported Sunday that the European Union will follow suit unless Athens is more to fix public finances.
Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Olli Rehn, told the magazine: "Europeans we are establishing the same conditions as the Monetary Fund International... que que The situation is very serious. ?
Papaconstantinou, said in a statement of the Ministry that negotiations and "they will be finalized in the coming days."
He added: "we have every reason to believe that these negotiations will be concluded positively for the country...". "It is to say that we will get the fifth opus."
According to Der Spiegel the EU will decide after reviewing the last quarterly audit of Greek public finances by the experts of the European Central Bank, the European Union and the IMF.
The audit will say that Athens is missing all the budget promises made last year in exchange for the rescue plan, the weekly said, without citing where he obtained the information.
The allegation "has no basis in reality for the main reason that the report does not exist yet... it has not yet been written, said Papaconstantinou.".
Friday, Greek political leaders do not agree on other austerity measures, but Prime Minister George Papandreou went to the television said his Government would "take the necessary measures."
The Greece was the first of the three members of the 17-nation euro zone need a billion dollars-euro bailout plan. Ireland and the Portugal have since follow-up costume and markets fear that Spain could possibly need help too.
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