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Wed 12 Dec 2009Troubled Greece discounts suggestion of EU bailout
GREECE IS not discussing a bailout with other European Union countries, its finance minister George Papaconstantinou said yesterday, when financial markets gave his emergency deficit-cutting plan a thumbs-down.
Speaking following a meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, Mr Papaconstantinou also said his country was doing everything necessary to reduce its public deficit.
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