Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras warned on Saturday his country needed more time to meet commitments made to EU-IMF lenders so to avoid making the current recession worse.
"The extension of the budgetary adjustment is necessary because of the recession," Stournaras told lawmakers during a three-day parliamentary session that ends Sunday with a confidence vote for the coalition led by conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
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