Press also said Chrysler is in ongoing talks with the U.S. Treasury Department over its request for additional government aid; he also said the automaker still had financing available from its first aid package under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to TradeTheNews.com.
Officials are now wrestling over terms of a second aid package for Greece.
"There's nothing new," Steffen Seibert, Ms. Merkel's spokesman, said a day after Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, created a political firestorm by suggesting that a third aid package for Greece was inevitable.
"If there is no firm commitment from the IMF to participate in the third aid package, then we have a new situation," said Wolfgang Bosbach, a high-profile rebel on Greece from Merkel's CDU party.
Last week, the EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn, said a revised analysis had shown that more rescue loans would be needed to make up for a shortfall in the second aid package.
In theory, if a majority of the 27 vote to use the fund for a second aid package for Greece, rather than repeat a eurozone-only rescue, the UK Treasury would be responsible for 12% of the new loan guarantee to the Greek government.
11.41am GMT The Telegraph's Bruno Waterfield also reckons a third Greek bailout is on the way: Telegraph Finance (@TeleFinance) Eurozone paves way for third Greek bail-out http://t.co/5E7IN8ke5N February 3 , 201411.33am GMT Germany: No new Greek haircut The German finance ministry has firmly denied reports that a third aid package for Greece could include a further debt haircut.
Weekly Der Spiegel reported this weekend that Berlin was preparing the ground for a third aid package for Greece of 10-20 billion euros which could include a further haircut affecting public creditors or a "limited additional programme" involving fresh funds from the European rescue fund.
Just two days after Athens executed the largest single debt restructuring in history, Antonis Samaras, head of the rightwing New Democracy (ND) party, criticised the terms of the country's second aid package in a speech seen as the clearest signal yet that an election is close.
The UK has delivered its first humanitarian aid packages to the Iraqi people being attacked by Islamic State militants.
