EU Preparing New Rescue Package for Greece
From bloomberg.com
European Union officials will focus on preparing a new aid package for Greece that includes a “voluntary” role for investors after the EU and the International Monetary Fund approved the fifth installment of Greece’s 110 billion-euro ($161 billion) bailout. “I expect the euro group to agree to additional financing to be provided to Greece under strict conditionality,” Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said after meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Luxembourg yesterday. “This conditionality will include private-sector involvement on a voluntary basis.” Papandreou agreed to 78 billion ...
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