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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Eurogroup seeking 7 billion euros for Greece to keep IMF involved

The Eurogroup is seeking 7 billion euros (4.9 billion pounds) of bridge financing for Greece from the European Financial Stability Fund from which Greece will be able to pay back its arrears to the International Monetary Fund, the body's chairman said on Thursday. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who is also Dutch finance minister, told an emergency session of the Dutch parliament there was broad agreement that the IMF needed to be involved in future Greek bail-outs. "Rather than a fire sale, privatisation will be pursued slowly in order to ensure better returns are achieved," Dijsselbloem told Dutch lawmakers.


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