The government's primary target is to present a comprehensive settlement framework for "red" business loans, Development and Competitiveness Minister Nikos Dendias said in an interview with Eleftheros Typos on Sunday.

Development and Competitiveness Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Berlin on Monday, after being invited by Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Sigmar Gabriel, to discuss the progress of the development programme in Greece, the prospect of investments in Greece, and Germany's participation in the Development Fund.

"Habitual slackers shouls not expect indulgence from the settlement of loans in the red," said today the Minister of Development Nikos Dendias after his meeting with the President of the union of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry Kostantinos Mihalos.