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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Talks between Greece and key EU leaders unlikely to bring breakthrough

Agreement between two sides is not expected as the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, meets political leaders of his key creditorsEurope’s long-running drama over whether Greece will stay in the single currency returns to the centre of EU politics on Thursday evening when Alexis Tsipras, the country’s prime minister, uses his second Brussels summit for emergency talks with the political leaders of his key creditors.Despite the reluctance of other EU leaders to prioritise Greece in a summit scheduled to deal with issues including Ukraine and the Libya crisis, the prime minister was granted a special meeting with Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, the French president, François Hollande, Donald Tusk of Poland - who chairs the summits, and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who heads the Eurogroup of finance ministers grappling with the dispute. Continue reading...


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