Germany says expects IMF to participate in Greece's bailout

Germany believes the International Monetary Fund will participate in Greece's bailout and it is too early to start thinking about other arrangements should the IMF bow out, a spokesman for the German finance ministry said on Monday.

The IMF said around two years ago that it would take part in Greece's aid package, the spokesman said at a regular government news conference, and added: "Nothing has changed about that and it's much too early to think about 'what if'."

He was answering a question about a report in the Bild newspaper that said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble would argue for a Greek exit from the eurozone should the IMF withdraw from the third bailout program.

Bild said it had obtained the information from sources in the ruling conservatives, which include Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and their Bavaria-based allies, the Christian...