EU extends Spain's deficit timeline by 1 year
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Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos Jurado, right, talks with President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi during the Eurogroup ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, July 9, 2012. The European Union worked towards stabilizing Spain's finances Tuesday as it backed up the blueprint for the country's €100 billion bank bailout plan with plans to grant the country an extra year to cut its budget deficit.
Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos Jurado, right, talks with President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi during the Eurogroup ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, July 9, 2012. The European Union worked towards stabilizing Spain's finances Tuesday as it backed up the blueprint for the country's €100 billion bank bailout plan with plans to grant the country an extra year to cut its budget deficit.
Finance ministers from the 27 EU countries, meeting in Brussels, approved a one-year extension, until 2014, of Spain's deadline for achieving a budget deficit of 3 percent, said Vassos Shiarly, Cyprus' finance minister, who chaired the meeting because his country holds the EU's rotating presidency.
The move comes on the heels of an overnight meeting at which the 17 euro area finance ministers agreed on the terms of a bailout for Spain's troubled banks, saying that the first €30 billion ($36.88 billion) in aid can be ready by the end of this month.
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