Statement
by Eurogroup President J. Dijsselbloem after the Eurogroup meeting of 7 July
2015
We
welcomed our new Greek colleague and listened to his assessment of the situation
after the "No" vote in Greece. There were no new proposals at this point from
the Greek minister, and the first step will be that the Greek government will
send the Eurogroup a new request; a new request letter for ESM support and as
soon as this comes in - hopefully already tomorrow morning - we will have
another Eurogroup conference call to formally start the process of dealing with
this request. I will first ask the institutions to look at the financial
situation in Greece, their finances and debt sustainability, and then the
institutions will come back to us and we will see if we can formally start the
negotiations. All this has to be done in a matter of days. We have very little
time, as you are all aware. Thanks.
