Eurozone crisis live: Asmussen hints at third Greek programme Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the eurozone financial crisis, and other key events in the world economy. Tension is building today ahead of another crucial meeting on Greece. On Tuesday, eurozone finance ministers and IMF officials will meet for another attempt at agreeing a deal on Greece's aid programme. To succeed, the EU and the IMF must bridge their differences over how to bring Greece's debts back to a manageable level - a task they flunked last week. Ahead of the talks, Jörg Asmussen - Germany's man on the European Central Bank's governing council - has weighed in by declaring that a new deal will be needed for Greece after 2014. In what looks like an attempt to hoof the Greek debt can further down the road, Asmussen said that the euro zone should agree the details of two years of funding for Greece at tomorrow's meeting and leave further help to be decided later. Asmussen told German broadcaster ZDF that: We should next week settle the financing for the years 2013 and 2014, but you have to be honest and say we do not really expect the country to have access to markets in 2015 and 2016; that means a follow-up programme would be necessary. That would delay the issue of Greece's long-term debt sustainability until after next autumn's German general election - but is not compatible with the International Monetary Fund's view (last week, Christine Lagarde demanded "a 'real fix not a quick fix"). But without any fix, Greece won't get its next aid tranche - which could now be worth €44bn. Klaus Regling, who runs Europe's main bailout fund, has also weighed in today. He told German newspaper Handelsblatt that it was almost inconceivable for European governments to take losses on their Greek bonds. Regling said: A public sector debt writedown is something very rare that can only be done in extreme circumstances. adding that official creditors had already done their bit by offering Greece fresh credit on generous terms. One might wonder what circumstances Regling would view as 'extreme' - given Greece's national debt could hit 190% of GDP next year. But his comments show that European officials are still unwilling to confront the idea that the ECB and national governments must take losses on their Greek bonds. So... we'll be monitoring all the developments and jockeying for position ahead of tomorrow's eurogroup meeting in Brussels, along with other key events across the global economy.