Samaras Gets New Rebuff From Coalition on Greek Budget Cuts
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras failed in a fresh bid to clinch agreement from his coalition on an 11.5 billion-euro ($14.9 billion) budget cuts package that’s key to releasing international aid funds.
Samaras received the third refusal in less than two weeks from Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis after talks with Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos in Athens about a plan that has already been criticized by inspectors from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- the so-called troika -- as not going far enough.