January 25, 2012
Greece has played down comments by Angela Merkel which cast doubt on the debt-stricken country's ability to be saved from economic collapse, saying they had been "over-read" by the media.
Within hours of the German chancellor's remarks in a Guardian interview, Greek officials said there was no indication that Berlin had "given up hope" on Athens coming out of its worst economic crisis in modern times.
"We don't have any such indication of imminent failure," said a high-level source, speaking anonymously. "On the contrary they [the Germans] are working hard for success."
Ahead of a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Merkel said: "We haven't overcome the crisis yet. Of course, there's Greece, a special case where, despite all the efforts that have been made, neither the Greeks themselves nor the international community have yet managed to stabilise the situation."
But officials close to the interim Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, said: "I wouldn't take those words to mean that she has given up hope."
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