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Samaras to attend EPP meeting in Brussels
Main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras on Tuesday will attend a meeting of European People's Party (EPP) Finance Ministers in Brussels.
An ND announcement said that the meeting will be chaired by EPP president Wilfried Martens and include several key members of European governments, such as French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble and Italy's finance minister Julio Tremonti.
The main topic under discussion will be the problems created by the economic crisis in Europe and ways in which Europe can emerge from the crisis in the fastest and safest way.
Government dismisses rumours of cabinet reshuffle
Government spokesman George Petalotis on Monday dismissed rumours of a pending cabinet reshuffle, saying that Prime Minister George Papandreou was not considering "any such issue".
"There is an express and categorical government denial that there is any issue of a reshuffle," he told reporters, while stressing that there was no ministry that was failing to 'perform'.
"The government is working hard, the number of formal and informal government meetings that are taking place daily shows that there is no comparison with the amount of work done under the New Democracy government," he added.
ANA-MPA/The spokesman confirmed, however, that the government expected its members to "toe the line" over certain issues and not express dissent.
"Everyone can express their own views in some way but when there is a government decision on certain matters, then we must all fall into line with that decision," he said.
Petalotis also took the opportunity to reply to main opposition ND leader Antonis Samaras over his reference to an alleged "PASOK system" the previous day.
