Apart from an insult from Merkel this time ("the Greek government arrived in reality step-by-step"), so far I don't see any government spin reported in the German media, all they say is that Schäuble already requested the vote on the Bundestag approval. The conservatives in the Bavarian CSU agitate against approval, and so does CDU foreign policy "expert" (and all-around asshole) Wolfgang Bosbach who reportedly wants to leave government over its (for him not hawkish enough) Greece policy.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

An influential German business group is urging MPs to take a tough line on Greece ahead of a Friday vote in the Bundestag to approve an extension to the country's bailout.

The lower house of Germany's parliament is broadly expected to pass the four-month extension that eurozone finance ministers agreed with Athens on Tuesday.

Nonetheless, Chancellor Angela Merkel could face a sizeable rebellion within her Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. If nothing else, the warnings from the CDU's business caucus and other conservatives reflect widespread unease about providing additional support to a Greek government amid doubts about its reform pledges.

In a letter to lawmakers, Kurt Lauk, president of the CDU's Economic Council, wrote: "A simple extension of the aid programme without effective terms would mean that we are knowingly throwing further good money after bad."

The council, an association representing business interests, is a longstanding critic of eurozone bailouts. It argues that rescues create moral hazard for governments that mismanage their economies.