So says an EU official speaking to Bloomberg

And not a few seconds later, they push out a headline from Handelsblatt proclaiming that Greece's creditors are preparing debt relief measures. Additionally, the Greek creditors are mulling over getting the ESM to take over the IMF loans.

I'm not sure why they'd want to do that unless the IMF are demanding a bigger relief for Greek debt than the EU. Handing it to the ESM would potentially remove the IMF from the whole process (though I'm grasping a lot form these mere headlines).

What doesn't change is that when the EU talks about Greece and time lines like "near future", that can be anything from 5-50 years ;-)