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Juncker says eurozone summit aims for "agreeable solution"

Xinhua, July 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday he was against a Grexit and that Tuesday night's eurozone summit aimed to reach an "agreeable solution".

"We don't want Greece out of the eurozone or the European Union, and we will continue to work on the reopening of negotiations," Juncker said when speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, according to a European Commission statement.

"My aim is to prevent Grexit. I am against Grexit," he said, adding that "in Europe there are no easy answers. Europe is about the permanent grappling for compromise solutions."

With regards to his expectations ahead of Tuesday night's summit, Juncker said the heads of the eurozone member states would sit down and try to get things going without rhetorical side effects so that they could bring the issue to a close. Endit