FIRST FOR GREECE Greece claimed its first World Cup win by rallying to beat 10-man Nigeria, 2-1, in Group B in Bloemfontein.
This is about nations in panic, choosing the easier, every-country-for-itself-and-Greece-as-the-scapegoat approach, rather than a coordinated response to the biggest crisis in their Union's history.
As he left the meeting in Luxembourg, the Greek finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, said it had been "a very good Eurogroup for Greece", with unanimous agreement that Greece had completed the reforms.
PANIC FACTOR: 3/5 GREECE Greece, the European Union's most indebted country, enters 2010 at the top of most investors' watch lists, but for all the wrong reasons.
PAGE A21 Business NEW RESCUE PACKAGE FOR GREECE TAKES SHAPE A new rescue package for Greece is taking shape, one that would offer billions of euros in new loans in return for accelerated privatization and tougher tax collection measures on the part of the beleaguered Greek government, European officials said.
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PAGE A18 Business ARGENTINA'S 2001 COLLAPSE MAY BE A LESSON FOR GREECE There is a lesson in Argentina's financial collapse of 2001.
Page B15 Business PORTUGAL'S BELT-TIGHTENING MAY BE A LESSON FOR GREECE Unlike Greece, Portugal is a debtor nation that has done everything that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund have asked it to, in exchange for the 78 billion euro bailout Lisbon received last May.
Zacharias Sachinis, a marketing manager with a chemicals firms, who was at the rally with his wife and son, said he was going to vote yes on Sunday because "the euro is good for Greece", even though he didn't like "the dictatorship of Schauble".
The second bailout is to be "financed through both official and private sources … in the form of informal and voluntary roll-overs of existing Greek debt at maturity for a substantial reduction of the required year-by-year funding within the programme, while avoiding a selective default for Greece", the eurozone ministers said.
Page A17 Business HURDLES REMAIN TO BAILOUT FOR DEBT-TROUBLED GREECE Euro zone finance ministers are expected to meet and give provisional approval to a 130 billion euro, or $170 billion, bailout for Greece, but technical, legal and political problems still plague a rescue that is unpopular both in Greece and in its creditor nations.
