Tag: emergency

No one should be surprised to learn Greek Shortfall Growing Ever Larger Athens has not been having an easy time coming up with the €11.5 billion in cost cutting measures over the next two years it has promised Europe. Indeed, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is reportedly set to request an additional two years to make those cuts during meetings later this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday and French President François Hollande on Saturday. But according to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the financing gap his country faces could be even greater.