Papademos Gets Domestic Support on Greek Debt, Troika Talks

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said he has the backing of leaders from the three political parties supporting his interim government as international creditors increase the pressure on Greece to make deeper spending cuts to secure new funding.

The party leaders are in “complete agreement” with the government on continuing talks with private and international creditors, the prime minister said in a statement today after meeting in Athens with George Papandreou of the socialist Pasok party, New Democracy party chief Antonis Samaras and George Karatzaferis, head of the Laos party. Talks “aren’t easy,” he said before flying to Brussels to meet European leaders.