Papandreou Talks on Greek Government With Rival to Resume
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Prime Minister George Papandreou resumes talks with his opposition rival in Athens today as they moved closer to agreement on naming the premier of a Greek unity government to secure outside financing and avert a collapse of the country’s economy.
Papandreou and Antonis Samaras, leader of New Democracy, “made progress in talks” yesterday “to name a head of a national unity government,” Elias Mosialos, a Greek government spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. The two men spoke by phone a number of times yesterday, said a Greek government official who declined to be named. Talks will resume in Athens today, the official said. Papandreou will meet his Cabinet at 12 p.m. local time, NET TV reported, without citing anyone.