Breaking NEWS - Euro ministers 'to hold debt crisis talks Monday'

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Anti-austerity protesters in Brussels earlier this month (AFP, Georges Gobet)*

BRUSSELS — Eurozone finance ministers will hold telephone talks on the debt crisis on Monday to flesh out decisions taken at a key summit earlier this month to save the European currency.

With several eurozone nations under threat of a credit rating downgrade, a key focus of the conference call will be plans to boost International Monetary Fund (IMF) coffers to allow it to come to the aid of floundering members.

A government source told AFP on condition of anonymity that the eurozone finance ministers, known as the Eurogroup, will hold telephone talks at about 1500 GMT Monday "to discuss what happens after the European summit of December 8 and 9" on saving the eurozone.

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