Calm confusion as Greece waits on debt deal from EU

There was an uneasy calm and lots of confusion at the end of the four-hour meeting of eurozone finance ministers yesterday after they failed to make progress on a new deal for Greece.

Calm confusion as Greece waits on debt deal from EU

Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said he had been prepared to sign a document given him by economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici at the start of the meeting, but it was withdrawn before he could do so.

He accused the Dutch president of the eurozone, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, of replacing it with a document that Athens could not sign.

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