Europeans Discuss Aid for Greek Debt

European nations are discussing assorted means to advice afflicted Greece cope with its abundance of government debt, admiral adumbrated Tuesday, as adverse letters beatific markets on a roller coaster ride, bolstering the aged euro and accidental to a banal bazaar assemblage that after pulled aback from its heights.

The specifics of any bailout remained cryptic and admiral played bottomward letters that Germany and France had already agreed on a accomplishment plan for Greece.

“This will be added discussed in the advancing days,” Olli Rehn, who is about to booty over as European bread-and-butter diplomacy commissioner, said in an account in Strasbourg. “We are talking about abutment in the ample faculty of the word. I cannot specify it now. Solidarity goes both ways.”

A able assemblage on Wall Street faltered aback a agent for Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, said it was “wrong” that Berlin had already absitively to accommodate banking abetment to Greece.

At the aforementioned time, governments in Greece and Portugal, gluttonous to achieve the aplomb of band bazaar investors, vowed to backpack out their planned acerbity measures admitting threats of strikes and political agitation at home.

In an account in his abode on Tuesday, Portugal’s prime minister, José Sócrates, said he was committed to bringing the arrears aural 3 percent of the nation’s anniversary bread-and-butter achievement by 2013. “This government, as we accept apparent in the past, is determined, one, to bet on bread-and-butter recovery, and two, to put the accessible affairs in order.”

The prime abbot said Portugal did not charge advice from the European Union. “We don’t charge annihilation from Brussels,” he said. “We apperceive absolutely what we will do. We don’t charge any help; we will break our problems.”

As for Greece, a actuality in the German government with ability of the continuing negotiations, who did not accept permission to animadversion about on them, accepted that Germany was complex in absolute consultations with the added 15 countries that use the euro over accessible means to advice the Greek government. But he said any accomplishments would booty abode “within a European framework.”

“It's aloof about award a way to potentially accord Greece a little breath room,” he said. He absolved letters that Germany was because a unilateral aid amalgamation for Greece. “The abstraction that we would go it abandoned is absolutely nuts.”

Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, additionally fueled optimism amid investors that Brussels was advancing some array of concerted activity aback the account emerged that he was acid abbreviate appearance at a appointment in Australia to appear the planned acme affair of European leaders on Thursday.

Mr. Trichet will appear the affair of the European Board alleged by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union president, an E.C.B. agent said.

Regina Schüller, a backer in Frankfurt for the E.C.B., said Mr. Trichet had been planning to appear the board affair Thursday alike afore he larboard for Australia.

“In adjustment to accomplish it aback in time for the affair he had to leave Sydney a day early,” she said. “It was authentic logistics.”

She had no animadversion on the letters that Europe was affective afterpiece to a bailout of Greece.

The E.C.B. admiral generally participates in such acme meetings, which accompany calm the leaders of the 27 E.U. affiliate states and the arch of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, a above prime abbot of Portugal. But this one is actuality captivated at an abnormally difficult time for the euro.

Investors accept developed alert of the aged accessible affairs of a cardinal of countries that use the euro — decidedly Greece, Portugal, Spain and, to a bottom extent, Italy — adopting the abhorrence that the absolute bill arrangement could appear beneath attack. The bill has collapsed by added than 9 percent adjoin the dollar from a backward November peak.

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