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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11474
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) greece

Eurogroup might decide to simply promise to ease Greece's debt burden

Brussels, 22/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - The head of Eurogroup, Dutch national Jeroen Dijsselbloem, feels that one option for a debt relief agreement between Athens and its international lenders would be a mutual promise.

“One (option) is that we simply promise each other. They promise to their European partners to maintain the primary surplus, in other words to run a good budget. And we promise that we stand ready to smooth out these peaks (in the debt repayment timeline, Ed.) in the...