Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Europe offers Greece 2nd chance as IMF fate discussed (AFP)



France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde speaks with Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou before attending an Eurogroup meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. Greece moved closer to securing better bailout terms as European finance ministers, playing down the absence of arrested IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, explored scenarios to ease Athens' debt burden.(AFP/Georges Gobet)AFP - Europe offered Greece a second chance to get its finances in order, as the head of the eurozone blasted talk coming mainly from Germany of replacing embattled IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.




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