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Greek PM Samaras arrives in Paris to meet Hollande as cuts strain Greece

By: The Associated Press

Posted: 08/25/2012 4:42 AM | Comments: 0

France’s President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the Elysee Palace, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. As the country's Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, heads around Europe for top-level talks on Greece's attempts to right its finances, austerity-weary Greeks back home are preparing themselves for new pain amid fears that they may be kicked out of the 17-country group that uses the euro. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

PARIS - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is meeting with the French president in Paris as part of Greece's push to win more time to carry out wrenching cuts to avert a fiscal crisis.

Saturday's visit with President Francois Hollande comes a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted the Greek leader in Berlin and said she expects Greece to meet its previous commitments.

Samaras has argued this week that Greece should have more time beyond a mid-2014 deadline to complete reforms that are a condition of it continuing to receive bailout loans.

Merkel and Hollande met before Samaras' trip and put the onus on Greece to keep its pledges — seen by many as a necessity to keep Greece in the eurozone and save the embattled currency.

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