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Tsipras, Merkel, Hollande, EU officials to meet Thursday on Greece

18 March 2015, 21:42 CET
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(BRUSSELS) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet the French and German leaders plus the EU's top officials late Thursday to plead Athens's case for relaxing the terms of its bailout programme, an official said.

"At the request of Prime Minister Tsipras, EU President Donald Tusk will convene a meeting on Greece Thursday evening after the European Council with the participation of... Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande," a spokesman for Tusk said.

The meeting will also be attended by European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chairs the euro single currency group, the spokesman added.

The talks would be a chance for embattled leftist leader Tsipras to convince Merkel and Hollande, the key political duo in the eurozone, to accept Greece's promises of reform and avert an exit by Athens from the euro.

The European Council groups the leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union who are meeting separately in Brussels for a regular summit on Thursday and Friday.

Greece is not on the summit agenda but it is the key issue facing the bloc and is likely to dominate discussions otherwise meant to tackle energy security and relations with east European countries in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.

European Council, 19-20/03/2015


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