(21 Feb 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble at press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Wolfgang Schaeuble, German Finance Minister:
"All together I think this is an outcome that we can take the responsibility for. It sets out the conditions, if the debt swap of private creditors is successful, so that Greece can come back on a sustainable path to economic recovery."
3. Medium press conference
4. Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees De Jager at press conference
5. Cutaway cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Jan Kees De Jager, Dutch Finance Minister: ++NON VERBATIM++
The decisions that came out of this meeting are good. But I know they will be very painful for the Greek people. They have to go through it though in order to get out of the crisis."
7. Wide European Central Bank President Mario Draghi arriving
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Draghi, European Central Bank President:
"It's a very good agreement, and we certainly welcome first and foremost the commitment of the Greek government to undertake the actions to restore growth and stability. We also welcome the commitment of the Euro area member countries to keep on helping Greece to come back on the path of growth and job creation. Of course it is very important that the major political forces in Greece own this programme. They stand behind the commitments that have been taken by the (Greek) Prime Minister and Finance Minister tonight, and lastly it is also very important that the programme and its implementation be rightly monitored."
9. Wide of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti arriving
10. Cutaway cameraman
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Mario Monti, Italian Prime Minister:
"It's a good outcome for Greece, for the eurozone, hopefully for the markets as well. A work that took long time; (it shows that) Europe can work."
12. Cutaway cameraman
13. Wide of Belgian Finance Minister Steven Vanackere talking to press
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Vanackere, Belgian Finance Minister:
"I am very glad that we have come to an agreement, I think that everybody understand that it was the moment of truth."
15. Cutaway cameraman
16. Wide of French Finance Minister Francois Baroin talking to press
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Baroin, French Finance Minister:
"It is a very good agreement because we stay in the mandate given by the heads of states and of governments, it is a very good agreement because it shares the burden between the European part and the Greek part, between the public sector and the private sector, it is a very good agreement because we reach the target we wanted and we went maybe even further we could expect when we entered the meeting."
18. Wide of press
19. Wide of European Commissioner for Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn leaving
STORYLINE
After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use the euro reached an agreement early on Tuesday to hand Greece euros 130 (b) billion (170 (b) billion US dollars) in additional bailout loans to save it from a potentially disastrous default next month.
The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund, which will be providing the money for the new bailout, hope the new programme will eventually put Greece back into a position where it can survive without external support and secure its place in the euro currency union.
Finance ministers from Greece and the other 16 euro countries meeting in Brussels wrangled until the early morning hours over how that could be achieved.
At the worst, the new programme would push the country even deeper into recession and see it default on its debts further down the line.
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