“Greece has a government and whatever we have to discuss with the country, we discuss it with the government and its associates,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday when he was asked about Die Welt’s publication citing an internal report which characterized Greece as practically ungoverned.

Seibert said that he is not aware of a press report describing Greece as a “rudderless ship.”

Asked if Berlin is content with the implementation of reforms in Greece, Seibert underlined: “The point is that Greece’s EU partners in total are content, not only one member state. That is the role of the institutions and the Eurogroup. We are not making bilateral evaluations.”