Greek Finance Minister Arrives at Eurogroup Meeting

Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis arrived in Brussels on Friday, February 20, for an extraordinary Eurogroup meeting to discuss the country’s financial situation, after Eurogroup talks on Greece’s debt collapsed on Monday, February 17. Speaking about the prospect of an agreement being reached at Friday’s meeting, Varoufakis said, “I trust that we are going to have one. The Greek government has gone not the extra mile, the extra ten miles.”

Talks collapsed after Greece deemed the EU’s conditions on an bailout extension as unacceptable. Greece is due to run out of money at the end of February if a deal is not struck. Credit: European Council