'Antonis Samaras told the parliament on Friday that his government was not seeking a change of the goals set in the 130-billion-euro bailout deal, but that it will ask for changes in the austerity policies imposed to meet them.

"We don't want to change the targets," Samaras told the parliament in his first policy speech since taking office. "What needs to change is that which is hampering us from attaining the targets. We want to fight the recession." The premier then promised to stick to reforms and measures to restore growth in a bid to ease the pain on the country’s economy that is struggling in its fifth year of recession.'

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