Mr Dijsselbloem, the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, said that the eurozone may give Greece more time to meet fiscal targets agreed under its international bailout.
Dijsselbloem said Greece's fiscal progress had been satisfactory so far, adding eurozone finance ministers would assess whether Greece deserves further debt relief in 2014.
"We will meet at some point in 2014 to see what more Greece will need on the condition it has met the set targets", he said in the interview. "We have not made any decisions on what form this debt relief will take and whether it will include erasing part of the bilateral loans. The Commission's approach regarding fiscal consolidation is more flexible, giving certain countries more time to meet their targets. I believe that this will be the case for Greece if needed.“
Greece's European partners agreed last year to extend the maturities and reduce the interest on the nation's bailout funds to help cut its debt mountain to a more sustainable level of 124 per cent of GDP in 2020, from an estimated 173 per cent this year.
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