Greece's government has
said it is close to agreeing a deal to gain the latest payment of
bailout money from its international lenders.
Eurozone finance ministers meet on Monday to decide whether
to release the next instalment of rescue funds worth 6.3bn euros
($8.1bn; £5.4bn).On Sunday, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said: "I am optimistic that tomorrow we will have an agreement."
Talks have centred around 4,000 civil service jobs that are due to be cut.
Greece must pay off 6.6bn euros of debt by mid-August.
"We have made substantial progress," said International Monetary Fund representative Poul Thomsen. The IMF is scheduled to decide by the end of July whether to disburse its contribution of 1.8bn euros to Greece.
To win the bailout - the country's second - Greece pledged to eliminate the 4,000 state jobs by the end of the year.
It must also redeploy 25,000 civil servants, including some 2,000 teachers, and 3,500 local police are to be incorporated in the national forces. All these measures have been met with fierce opposition in Greece.
The Greek coalition government came close to collapsing recently following the shutdown of state broadcaster ERT.