Juncker made the offer a day after crisis talks between Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European leaders to shore up Greece's faltering EU-IMF bailout.
The two-month-old radical government of Tsipras has until April to reach agreement with its creditors, but its cash reserves are running dangerously low.
Late on Thursday, European leaders said they had agreed with Greece to finish work "as fast as possible" to unblock loans helping Athens to avoid bankruptcy and a catastrophic exit from the euro. "We have put the process back on track," Tsipras said after talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Francois Hollande and the EU's top officials on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels.
"Greek authorities will have the ownership of the reforms and will present a full list of specific reforms in the next days," said a statement issued after the talks.
France's Hollande urged Greece "to be more precise in its reform proposals and introduce them faster than planned." Greece's new government, which intends to eliminate austerity, made a pledge in February to present alternative reforms to its creditors by April. But technical talks in Athens and Brussels largely stalled amid reports that the Greek officials were being uncooperative in handing over budget data.
The Greek finance ministry on Friday said it was expecting a "detailed list" from EU-IMF technical teams on their data requirements.
In past weeks, the Greek government has released several reform lists but without citing the possible cost of the measures, a crucial point for the country's creditors................AFP................http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/913255.shtml
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