Euro crisis: Greece budget cuts to be inspected

A team of inspectors from the so-called troika of the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund are due in Athens this week to see how the government is progressing with its austerity programme.

Greece is under pressure to speed up far-reaching reforms, including privatisation and civil service job cuts, in order to continue receiving instalments of its international bailout.

Jeremy Howells reports.

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