der Finazminister Sachnidis sagt,das Gerücht diene nur dem Spiel der Spekulanten,auch Juncker sagt,das Gerücht sei falsch meldet Reuter.Das Treffen in Luxemburg fand statt um die Situation in Irland und Griechenland zu erörtern und die künftige Leitung der EZB.
ATHENS/BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - A small group of European finance ministers was meeting on Friday to discuss the euro zone debt crisis, official sources told Reuters, as Greece denied a media report that it was considering whether to leave the bloc.
European official sources told Reuters that finance ministers from a handful of the largest euro zone countries were meeting privately in Luxembourg to talk about issues including the severe sovereign debt problems of Greece and Portugal....
Greece's Deputy Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis denied the report, suggesting it played into the hands of currency traders. The euro fell nearly 1 percent against the dollar in response to the report, while the cost of insuring Greek debt against default was quoted at a record high.
"The report about Greece leaving the euro zone is untrue," Sachinidis told Reuters. "Such reports undermine Greece and the euro and serve market speculation games."
Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the group of euro zone finance ministers, also said the report was wrong. "I totally deny that there is a meeting, these reports are totally wrong," Juncker's spokesman, Guy Schuller, told Reuters by telephone.
A European official source told Reuters that the Luxembourg meeting was reviewing a range of issues such as the economic situations of Portugal and Greece as well as the future leadership of the European Central Bank.
He said there were no plans for a restructuring of Greece's debt. Last May, the country obtained a 110 billion euro bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, but it has been struggling to cut its budget deficit as fast as planned amid a deep recession.
A German government official told Reuters that a Greek exit from the euro zone "is not planned and was not planned", while a spokesman for the Austrian finance ministry said a breakup of the bloc would be "absolutely unthinkable".
Spiegel quoted from what it said was an internal German finance ministry paper that Schaeuble was taking with him to Luxembourg, which warned that a Greek exit "would lead to a significant depreciation of the domestic currency versus the euro" and increase Greece's debt levels to 200 percent of gross domestic product....
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