Euro Zone Asked to Prepare for Greek Debt Relief Talks in April

The head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem asked euro zone finance ministers meeting on Monday to prepare to start talks on debt relief for Greece in April, a euro zone official said. Talks on the debt relief can only start once Greece’s lenders — euro zone governments and the International Monetary Fund, agree that the country has delivered on reforms pledged in August in exchange for cheap loans.