Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras voiced optimism about his debt-strapped country's future during a Germany visit Tuesday, saying he sees "the glass half-full."
Greece is "delivering and Europe is helping," he said about Athens' tough austerity and structural reform efforts demanded by international creditors in return for bail-out funds.
Samaras was set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, where both leaders and other politicians were attending a closed-door economic conference organized by the newspaper Die Welt.
Amid the eurozone crisis, Germany, sometimes called Europe's paymaster, has driven demands for tough reforms, while Greece has been hard hit by painful cutbacks amid recession and high unemployment.
Both Merkel and Samaras in their New Year's messages sought to prepare voters for another tough year in the eurozone debt crisis.
In Berlin on Monday, German President Joachim Gauck urged Greece to stay the course of tough reforms and offered his country's continued support.