Greek Gov't to Submit Draft Budget to Parliament Greece's finance minister is to submit the 2013 draft budget to Parliament Monday, as the government resumes negotiations with international creditors over a two-year additional austerity package. Yannis Stournaras is due to meet the heads of the debt inspection teams from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission - known as the troika - Monday afternoon. Athens needs the troika to sign off on a package of spending cuts and tax hikes for 2013-14 expected to reach €13.5 billion ($17.5 billion) so its bailout creditors can continue disbursing billions of euros in rescue loans that are keeping Greece from a messy default. Pedestrians are silhouetted as they walk by the graffiti - painted wall of Athens' university on Sunday, Sept. Greece has been struggling to avoid a chaotic default and possible exit from the eurozone with multi-billion-euro bailout loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund since May 2010. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis) Close The cuts relating to next year are to be included in the draft budget that Stournaras is to submit to Parliament after his meeting with the troika - the first official record of what the new cuts will be. Austerity talks involving the troika and three political parties backing Greece's four-month-old coalition government have dragged on for weeks, with disagreement over how the cuts will affect low-income Greeks suffering under a four-year recession. Government officials have conceded that pensions and salaries will be axed further. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a weekend newspaper interview, argued the country was regaining creditability with rescue lenders by making up for delays in government reforms. "This will get better - that's for sure," Samaras told the Sunday To Vima newspaper. Our partners can see that changes are now happening ... The first thing we must do is win back our damaged credibility," he said. Without credibility, you can't negotiate.