Summary London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped 0.05 percent to 6,885.51 points.
LONDON (AFP) - Europe s main stock markets opened lower on Friday as eurozone members prepared for crunch talks with Greece on a renegotiation of the country s bailout terms.
London s benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped 0.05 percent to 6,885.51 points compared with Thursday s close.
Frankfurt s DAX 30 fell 0.23 percent to 10,976.77 points and the CAC 40 index in Paris lost 0.25 percent to 4,821.38.
Finance ministers from the eurozone s 19 member countries will meet in Brussels on Friday to consider a proposal by Athens to extend its European loan programme, which expires at the end of the month.
Germany has firmly dismissed the request by Athens for a six-month extension to its EU loan programme, pouring doubt on whether the different sides can find a quick solution to an increasingly embittered debt row and avoid a potentially catastrophic exit by Greece from the euro.
