Greece Points Finger at IMF as Schaeuble Sees Deal in Weeks
- Government expects agreement on emergency loans by next month
- Greek Minister of State Nikos Pappas speaks in interview
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Greece said it’s aiming for an agreement with creditors on the next tranche of emergency loans by the beginning of May as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sought to play down debt relief expectations.
“We have almost identical estimates with the European Commission,” Minister of State Nikos Pappas, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest ally in the government, said in an interview in Athens. “And what needs to be done in the following days is to turn the almost identical into identical,” he said late on Friday, ahead of frantic negotiations between the government and officials representing creditor institutions that failed to find a deal.