BRUSSELS, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Euro zone finance
ministers are expected to approve a second bailout for Greece on
Monday, a move they hope will draw a line under months of
turmoil that has shaken the currency bloc, although there is
work to be done to make the figures add up.

Diplomats and economists do not expect the package to
resolve Greece’s economic problems: that could take up to a
decade or more – a bleak picture increasingly apparent to
several thousand Greeks who demonstrated on Sunday against
seemingly endless austerity measures.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers are expected to approve a second rescue package for Greece at a meeting on Monday, a move officials hope will draw a line under four months of social unrest and financial market turmoil that has shaken Athens.

Diplomats and economists do not expect the package to resolve Greece’s economic problems: that could take up to a decade or more.

BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Euro zone finance
ministers are expected to approve a second rescue package for
Greece at a meeting on Monday, a move officials hope will draw a
line under four months of social unrest and financial market
turmoil that has shaken Athens.

Diplomats and economists do not expect the package to
resolve Greece’s economic problems: that could take up to a
decade or more.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance officials are examining ways of delaying parts or even all of a second bailout programme for Greece while still avoiding a disorderly default, several EU sources said on Wednesday.

Delays could possibly last until after the country holds elections expected in April, they said.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance officials are examining ways of delaying parts or even all of the second bailout program for Greece while still avoiding a disorderly default, several EU sources said on Wednesday.

Delays could possibly last until after the country holds elections expected in April, they said

BRUSSELS/ATHENS, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Euro zone finance
ministers have dropped plans for a special face-to-face meeting
on Wednesday on Greece’s new international bailout, saying
political party chiefs in Athens had failed to provide the
required commitment to reform.

A day before euro zone finance ministers had been due to
meet in Brussels to consider the bailout, the man most likely to
be Greece’s next prime minister had yet to sign a commitment to
implement the austerity measures demanded by the EU and IMF.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Eurozone finance ministers abandoned a plan to gather on Wednesday to discuss aid for Greece and instead decided to talk by phone as they continued to grapple with unresolved problems over a financial rescue plan.

Greece needs a second package of financial aid to save it from disorderly default.

BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers dropped plans on Tuesday for a special face-to-face meeting on Greece’s new international bailout, as the cabinet in Athens argued up to the last minute on plugging a 325 million euro (271.7 million pound) gap in its austerity plan.

Ministers in the Eurogroup had been expected to gather in Brussels on Wednesday for a meeting which, if all had gone to plan, would have approved the 130 billion euro rescue and save Greece from a messy bankruptcy next month.

BRUSSELS/ATHENS, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Euro zone finance
ministers dropped plans on Tuesday for a special face-to-face
meeting on Greece’s new international bailout, as the cabinet in
Athens argued up to the last minute on plugging a 325 million
euro ($427 million)gap in its austerity plan.

Ministers in the Eurogroup had been expected to gather in
Brussels on Wednesday for a meeting which, if all had gone to
plan, would have approved the 130 billion euro rescue and save
Greece from a messy bankruptcy next month.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In the marathon tennis match that is the Greek debt crisis, the ball is firmly back in Athens’ court and the consensus that a bailout deal will eventually be done is starting to fray a little.

After a ‘deal’ was struck among Greek political leaders on Thursday, euro zone finance ministers in Brussels took one look at Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos’ figures and promptly told him to go back to Athens and do more.