Greece pledges full list of reforms within the week

Promise comes as German foreign minister declares ties between Berlin and Athens have improved

Greece has pledged to pull together a comprehensive list of reforms by the start of next week, in an attempt to unlock fresh funds before Athens runs out of cash in April.

Government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said on Tuesday that the programme demanded by Greece's increasingly impatient creditors would be finished within days.

Greece is a long-festering problem that was mishandled from the beginning by all parties.

The improvement provides welcome news to a region awaiting signs that the ECB's quantitative easing is stimulating the real economy.