The three parties in Greece's new coalition government resumed talks Monday to try and decide on a major new package of budget savings demanded by rescue lenders as a condition for continued bailout financing.
Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was conferring with junior coalition partners who have so far declined to sign off on Cabinet-level proposals for the new 14.1 billion dollar package for 2013-14.
Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou refused to rule out new pension and salary cuts.
"I cannot rule out anything that has not been decided. This euro11.5 billion guarantees our access to far greater amounts of money ... So there is pressing need to come up with that 11.5 billion," Kedikoglou told private Antenna television.
Debt inspectors from the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund -- known as the troika -- also resumed meetings with government officials to try and finalize the new austerity measures.