Any accidental straying from the path of the Greek bailout plan seemed out of the question, in Luxembourg on Thursday 15 June, at the start of the Eurogroup meeting.
The aim of Athens and its institutional creditors was to finalise the second monitoring mission of the aid plan, opening the door for a further tranche of aid to be released and avoiding a Greek payment default. This tranche, payable in several instalments, is around €8.5 billion in order to cover, amongst other things, the...