ATHENS: Greece is not at "war" with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on the eve of the latest review by the lenders to decide whether to pay the next tranche of bailout loans.
Inspectors from the EU, IMF and the European Central Bank,
known collectively as the "troika," resume a visit to Athens on Tuesday to check how far the country has come in meeting its bailout commitments, including privatizations.
Doubts had emerged over whether the lenders would return this week as scheduled after differences emerged over how to plug a gap in Greece's 2014 budget, but the two sides settled their differences.
"First of all let me say something - let's do away with this notion that we are in some kind of war," Samaras told Greek TV late on Monday. "It is a negotiation."
The lenders fear that without new measures, Greece will miss a targeted primary budget surplus, excluding debt servicing outlays, next year.
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