Fenech to attend urgent Eurogroup meeting

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech shall be attending an urgent Eurogroup meeting in Brussels tomorrow. The meeting, for Eurozone finance ministers, will have a third go at resolving the Greece bailout issue. Last Friday, Luxembourg President Jean-Claude Juncker, who will chair the meeting, said that a decision was of utmost importance. Last Monday, the 17 Eurogroup nations and the International Monetary Fund failed to strike a deal on the financing of the necessary bailout for Greece. Euro zone finance ministers, the IMF and ECB failed earlier this week to agree on how to get Greek debt down to a manageable level. European paymaster Germany expressed optimism that a deal could be struck at that meeting. "I am very hopeful that we can reach a solution on the question of the payment of the Greece tranches on Monday," Chancellor Angela Merkel said The finance ministers held a teleconference yesterday to prepare for tomorrow's meeting. A senior source involved in the negotiations told Reuters that the IMF would now accept 124 per cent as a target but was dismissive of the gap amounting to only 10 billion euros. A Greek finance ministry official said the ECB could relinquish 9 billion...