TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Greek bailout: Eurogroup talks collapse
This is the second time in five days that a eurogroup meeting has broken up without any progress on Greece.
Onto Greece. Dijsselbloem explains that the eurogroup didn’t get an agreement last Wednesday. Then he and Greek PM Tsipras agreed to start technical work on the bailout, and to examine how Greece could cover the 30% of their bailout programme which they want to abandon.
Today officials reported back.... ministers had a slight sense of disappointment over the work, and that there was “no firm common ground” on what a new programmw would look like.
Then, in today’s meeting.... the general feeling is that the best thing would be for the Greek authorities to seek an extension to its programme, says Dijsselbloem.
We simply need more time to examine Greece’s proposals, so an extension would give us the ability to do that work.
This is the second time in five days that a eurogroup meeting has broken up without any progress on Greece.
Onto Greece. Dijsselbloem explains that the eurogroup didn’t get an agreement last Wednesday. Then he and Greek PM Tsipras agreed to start technical work on the bailout, and to examine how Greece could cover the 30% of their bailout programme which they want to abandon.
Today officials reported back.... ministers had a slight sense of disappointment over the work, and that there was “no firm common ground” on what a new programmw would look like.
Then, in today’s meeting.... the general feeling is that the best thing would be for the Greek authorities to seek an extension to its programme, says Dijsselbloem.
We simply need more time to examine Greece’s proposals, so an extension would give us the ability to do that work.