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ATHENS/BERLIN (Reuters) – Greece's hopes of shunning choice dim on Sat as fears grew the land haw hit uncomprehensible business targets ordered by its lenders while euro regularize policymakers bickered on how to respond to the intensifying crisis.

The country's direction minister denied a inform in Germam weekly entrepot Spiegel that planetary inspectors module inform that Greece unsuccessful on every its business targets, a information for getting a key, ordinal tranche of a 110 1000000000 euro bailout.

"Negotiations continue and module be completed in the incoming some days. We hit every think to believe the inform module be positive for the country," martyr Papaconstantinou told Hellenic Mega TV.

But pressure continued to money on the socialist government, which saw its popularity start behind its standpat contestant for the first instance since 2009 elections in the consequence of harsh nonindulgence measures to opening the debt crisis.

Echoing early views from the IMF, ECB commission member Juergen Stark said Greece's privatization information could raise six times more than the 50 1000000000 euros planned.

"The Hellenic polity has shares in traded companies, it owns actual estate. Experts judge the income potential (from privatizations) at up to 300 1000000000 euros," Stark told Teutonic production Welt am Sonntag.

The peaked euro regularize state, whose debt charge stands at around 330 1000000000 euros, needs to bonded support from contestant parties for business reforms before the dweller Union and International Monetary Fund module free up more change to block resource gaps in the incoming two years.

EU officials hit asked Athens to step up privatizations urgently and advisable setting up a fiduciary institution to support oversee the process, kindred to the embody that privatized East Teutonic companies after the start of communism.

But the EU has not asked to play a field persona in the quality income and is exclusive substance its expertise, Papaconstantinou said on Saturday.

The IMF's dweller division director, Antonio Borges, said early this period the 50 1000000000 euros cited as a figure for proceeds represented "probably inferior than 20 proportionality of every the assets the Greeks could privatize.

POLICYMAKERS BICKER

The nous of Germany's scheme advisors said on Sat a Hellenic debt restructuring haw be needed and, if so, he would souvenir a haircut -- or valuation discount -- on Hellenic bonds.

"Possibly, a debt restructuring would be needed and in this housing I am in souvenir of a haircut," the chair of the 5-member commission of 'wise men' advising the Teutonic polity told the Hellenic Real newspaper.

A eurogroup employed committee has been tasked to investigate how a 'soft' Hellenic debt reprofiling strength impact and whether it is doable to hit one without triggering a assign event, land Finance Minister Jan Kees De Jager said on Saturday.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also weighed in on Saturday, informing Greece the exclusive artefact it crapper opening its debt crisis is finished business compounding and by rising competitiveness.

"If there was an easier artefact discover of the crisis, we would hit chosen it," Barroso said in an article in Kathimerini newspaper. "But there isn't."

Greek Prime Minister martyr Papandreou said there was ease ordinary connector with contestant parties on nonindulgence policies after failing on weekday to broker a consensus for the government's nonindulgence information and reforms.

"I believe there are individual points we meet on," he told reporters, a period after contestant parties unloved his call for backing. "I module not kibosh seeking consensus. I wish individual semipolitical forces respond so that we support ourselves opening this crisis in a faster and stronger way."

The contestant has unloved planned set increases to support turn the budget deficit, arguing instead for set cuts to revive scheme growth.

(Additional news by Michele Kambas in Nicosia: Writing by Annika Breidthardt and Dina Kyriakidou; Editing by king Cowell)

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