AlHijjah 7, 1433, Oct 23, 2012, SPA -- Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was scheduled to meet with his junior coalition partners on Tuesday to push through a new round of austerity measures. The government is in negotiations with its international lenders, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), known as the troika, on a package of spending cuts worth 13.5 billion euros (17.5 billion dollar), dpa reported. The government is hoping to have the spending cuts and structural reforms ratified by parliament by mid-November so that it can secure its next tranche of aid worth 31.5 billion euros to avoid bankruptcy.
