Yannis Stournaras and Gikas Hardouvelis spoke of positive developments after their meeting on Friday afternoon with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the latter’s offices.

Mr. Stournaras stated that “several things are working out as planned”, when he was asked by reporters about the meeting he had in Berlin with the German Finance Minister.

The subject of the meeting was all that was said during the meeting, as well as the Eurogroup meeting coming up on Thursday.

On his part, the new Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis confirm that messages from Berlin are positive, but he gave no further explanations.

“All issues are open. I, as a new minister, must be informed on what has been done and said up until now, where the process is at currently and then, I will be able to begin”, he stated.

When asked if there is anything new in relation to the debt issue, he replied that these particular issues cannot be discussed yet.

Compared with the messages the former minister has received from Berlin, new FinMin Gikas Hardouvelis said that “Mr. Stournaras said it was all positive. Nothing more”.

When he was asked about the issue of tax cuts, he cannot yet enter into such details.