Update: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012

> COALITION LEADERS MEET

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras meets later today with PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis in an attempt to finalise talks on the new austerity package. Discussion will also include the process that would best secure the relevant Parliament vote that should take place by the time Eurozone FinMins meet on November 12….

> GOVERNMENT EFFORTS

Government has entered the final straight, intensifying its efforts to finalize the agreement with troika and avoid a political accident inside or outside the country, protothema.gr writes…

> AUSTERITY MEASURES

According to ANA sources with the labour ministry, the government appears to have ‘saved’ the 3-year salary maturities until the completion of the mid-term programme. The troika maintains that the 3-year maturities were abolished with the signing of the second memorandum, which calls for the replacement of the national collective labour agreement with a minimum salary…

> BUYING BACK GREEK BONDS

Euro-zone countries are considering a proposal that would see Greece cut its debt by buying back bonds held by private creditors at a discount, writes Wall Street Journal

> PUBLIC HEALTH

Reuters writes: “Just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse for Greece, the exhausted and indebted country has a new threat to deal with: mosquito-borne diseases…