Wolfgang Schaeuble plays down debt relief in Greece talks

Greece said it’s aiming for an agreement with creditors on the next tranche of emergency loans by the beginning of May as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sought to play down debt relief expectations.

“We have almost identical estimates with the European Commission,” Minister of State Nikos Pappas, who is Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest ally in the government, said in Athens.

Bailout auditors from the EU, the ECB, and IMF have been holding another round of talks with government officials in Athens for the past week to discuss policy measures attached to the country’s bailout.