By Jan Strupczewski
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - A Greek debt restructuring is not in the cards because it would not help solve Greece's economic problems and it would hurt the euro zone, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Friday.
Rehn said that a debt sustainability analysis of Greece, to be started in May, would show what new steps the country would need to take to reach deficit and debt reduction goals agreed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
"Restructuring is not part of the plan, it is not in the cards," Rehn told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of financial leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies.
"It would neither be necessary, nor help Greece to overcome its economic difficulties as Greece needs reform and reform is the essential part of the programme," he said.
"Nor would it be beneficial to the euro area. It would actually be quite detrimental to Europe," he said. (Reporting by Jan Strupczewski, editing by Leslie Adler)