Greece Moves Closer to Bailout Exit After Deal With Creditors
Greece and its creditors agreed on the next steps for completing the country’s final bailout review, a key milestone for exiting the program and striking a deal on debt relief. Government officials and representatives from the International Monetary Fund and euro-area creditor institutions completed a week of discussions in Athens on Saturday. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said reaching a technical deal to conclude the fourth bailout review, the so-called staff level agreement, paves the way for discussion of debt relief measures. Euro-area finance ministers may begin a discussion over how to ease the country’s debt burden of about 320 billion euros ($377 billion) at a May 24 meeting. The SLA agreement also lets policy makers to proceed with designing a framework for the country’s post-program monitoring and determining what sort of strings would be attached to the debt relief. Tsakalotos said such a mechanism will be discussed at the June 21 Eurogroup meet...
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