–Adds Further Comments From Opposition Parties To Story Sent 12:03 GMT
BERLIN (MNI) – Germany’s main opposition parties on Friday signaled
that they will vote on Monday in parliament together with Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s government coalition for the second Greek aid package.
“We’re principally ready for this,” the parliamentary budget
speaker of the center-left SPD, Carsten Schneider, said ahead of a
meeting of the parliamentary budget committee on the matter.
Rejecting the aid measures for Greece would in the end be more
costly for the German taxpayer than approving them, Schneider argued.
Still, he called on Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to provide more
details to lawmakers on the planned measures.
The parliamentary budget speaker of the ecologist Greens, Priska
Hinz, said not granting Greece further aid “would be surely worse for
Greece, the EU and for Germany.”
Only the post-communist Left party reaffirmed that it would vote
against the Greek aid package.
Deputy Finance Minister Steffen Kampeter on Thursday told the
European affairs committee of parliament that Germany’s share of the
E130 billion aid package for Greece would amount to some E37.5 billion
in the case that the IMF did not contribute to the deal.
–Berlin bureau: +49-30-22 62 05 80; email: twidder@marketnews.com
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