German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras attend a news conference after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday he saw no financing hole in the current aid programme for Greece and any decision on further debt relief could only be taken once final data on the budget surplus is available next year.
Samaras said at a news conference in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel he was optimistic there would soon be a deal on a new aid tranche with the troika of international creditors. But he also made clear Greece was planning no further cuts in public pay and pensions, beyond what has already been agreed.
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