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Together we looked into the abyss, but Greece will now irreversibly remain a member of the eurozone. Well that was the verdict of the President of the European Union Jean-Claude Juncker after a third bailout for Greece was approved in Brussels by eurozone finance ministers. It means €86 billion of new lending will be released to Athens to help Greece meet its ongoing debt repayments. At a press conference after the talks, the head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters that Greece had shown a clear commitment in recent weeks to reform.
Of course we welcome the agreement that was reached between institutions and Greece. It is to our minds, in line with the key objectives set by the Euro Summit on the 12th of July and if implemented with determination - of course it always boils down to determination - it will allow the Greek economy to return to sustainable growth.
Well, Tom Nuttall is from the Economist Magazine and he's been in Brussels. He's followed the twists and turns of the Greek debt crisis and says he was quite surprised at how finance ministers today appeared to just rubber stamp the deal.
Yeah, I mean it's strange really after having followed this saga for six months. It's, you know, as T. S. Eliot says, it's ended "not with a bang but with a whimper" and I mean this is unusually early for Eurogroup to finish before midnight, some way before midnight. There don't seem to be any particularly thorny difficulties today. | 
发表于 2016-8-17 22:19:42