Eurogroup President and Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem speaks to media before an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, August 14, 2015. (Xinhua/Ye Pingfan)
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Eurogroup FinMins' meeting on Greece "positive": group head
BRUSSELS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Friday that the finance ministers' meeting on Greece turned out "positive".
The outcome of the meeting made the weeks-long negotiation in Athens "pay off," Dijsselbloem told a press conference after an extraordinary Eurogoup meeting on Greece.
The ministers gathered here to discuss Greece's third bailout plan worth around 86 billion euros (about 95 billion U.S. dollars) under the European Stability Mechanism.
Earlier in the morning, the Greek parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of adopting series of new austerity measures to secure the long-awaited bailout plan.
Debt-torn Greece is facing an urgent repayment of a 3.2-billion-euro loan to the European Central Bank due on Aug. 20.
