Eurozone Leaders to Hold Emergency Summit on Greece

The eurozone’s 19 leaders will meet in an emergency summit next week to seek a breakthrough in Greece’s bailout after talks Thursday ended in acrimony, intensifying fears that the country was heading for bankruptcy and an exit from the euro.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks during a media conference after a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Luxembourg on Thursday, June 18, 2015. AP Photo/Virginia Mayo

LUXEMBOURG—The eurozone’s 19 leaders have been summoned to an emergency summit next week after talks about Greece’s bailout ended in acrimony on Thursday, intensifying fears that the country was heading for bankruptcy and an exit from the euro.

Donald Tusk, who chairs meetings of European leaders, called them to Brussels on Monday evening to “urgently discuss the situation of Greece at the highest political level”—frustrated at the lack of progress less than two weeks before a big payment Athens has to make to the International Monetary Fund.

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