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EU leaders: Latest Greek proposals seen as ‘basis’ for deal

Eurozone FinMins on Monday appeared, at last, pleased with the latest proposals by the radical leftist Greek government, while warning that a detailed study will take days.

Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem told Reuters that “we will work very hard in the next few days, the institutions with the Greek government, to get that deal this week.”

Stournaras to face panel on Siemens, but not on Monday

Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras is willing to appear before Parliament?s institutions committee following the panel?s decision to summon him to testify in connection with the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal but not on Monday, as requested, because emergency talks on Greece will require him to be on standby, sources close to Stournaras indicated over the weekend.

Commission and ECB working on Greek debt relief draft

By Eleni Varvitsiotis

As European finance ministers arrived in Luxembourg on Thursday for a Eurogroup meeting which was not expected to break the impasse in Greece's bailout talks, officials were now examining the possibility of an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels on June 25, on the sidelines of a European Council taking place on the same day.

Dijsselbloem: Differences with Greece 'still quite large'

Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Thursday that the differences between Greece and its lenders are "still quite large" and that Athens is expected to present alternatives within days.

Talks that concluded in Brussels hours earlier were "successful in narrowing down the remaining issues", Dijsselbloem said on the sidelines of a conference in Amsterdam.

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