Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis met on Monday morning with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

The meeting that started at about 11:30 and lasted approximately for an hour was also attended by the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) general manager Stelios Papadopoulos and focused on issues related to the government’s fiscal policy and the public debt.

Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis told reporters after the meeting that the troika of Greece’s lenders will return to Athens at the beginning of January. Moreover, he estimated that the assessment of the Greek program will be concluded before the Eurogroup meeting on January 26.