(20 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras arriving at EU Council
2. Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker arriving
3. Cutaway of camera
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup President:
"I have a quite optimistic assumption for the next steps. It is clear that Greece has delivered but we still have to agree on the details. I expect the chances are good that we will come to an agreement tonight, agreed by all sides, but I am not completely sure about this."
5. Cutaway of camera
STORYLINE
European Union officials will try again on Tuesday to reach a political accord on desperately needed bailout loans for Greece, an agreement that eluded them last week.
The discussion among the finance ministers from the 17 European Union countries that use the euro will centre on a 31.5 (b) billion euros (40.2 billion US dollars) loan.
But when previously frozen aid is considered along with further aid, scheduled to be disbursed later this year, the total could reach 44 (b) billion euros (56.15 billion US dollars), said a spokesman for eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker.
As he went into Tuesday's meeting, Juncker said Greece deserved the aid.
"It is clear that Greece has delivered but we still have to agree on the details," he said.
"I expect the chances are good that we will come to an agreement tonight, agreed by all sides, but I am not completely sure about this."
Labouring under a mountain of debt, Greece has been relying since 2010 on international bailout loans, under terms supervised by the so-called troika, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission, which is the 27-country European Union's executive branch.
Greece was granted one extension at last week's meeting, an extra two years until 2016 to implement its programme of austerity reforms and deficit cuts.
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