Ný samsteypustjórn Grikkja ætlar að sækjast eftir tveimur árum til viðbótar til að ná takmörkum um jafnvægi í ríkisfjármálum. Ríkisstjórnin vonast einnig eftir að geta komið í veg fyrir að lækkun lágmarkslauna og uppsagnir opinberra starfsmanna. Þetta kemur fram í tilkynningu frá ríkisstjórnarflokkunum. Þetta kemur fram í frétt The Guardian.

Atvinnuleysisbætur verða borgaðar út í tvö ár í staðinn fyrir eitt til að reyna að sporna við vandamálum vegna hás atvinnustigs sem er yfir 20% í dag.

Greece 's new coalition government has outlined the concessions it hopes to exact from Europe 's leaders on its €130bn bailout package, as its two top politicians receive hospital treatment.

With a crucial summit between European leaders set for Thursday and Friday in Brussels, the Greek government said it would press for an extra two years' grace to meet the tough deficit targets laid down in the bailout deal, and was hoping to reverse cuts in the minimum wage and cancel planned civil service layoffs.

"The general target is for there to be no further reductions in wages or pensions and no more taxes," said a statement made by the three parties that make up the new coalition.

Unemployment benefit would be paid out for two years instead of one under the coalition's plans, to ease the distress caused by the country's high unemployment rate, which is running at more than 20%.

It will press ahead with the €50bn of privatisations demanded by Greece's creditors, but would like part of the programme to take place through public-private partnerships instead of outright sales.

Prime minister Antonis Samaras had an emergency operation on Saturday to repair a damaged retina, while his finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, was kept under observation in hospital after collapsing on Friday.