Jul 12th 2011, 16:28 by Charlemagne | BRUSSELS
AS ministers, officials and journalists stagger out of the Justus Lipsius building tonight, the unofficial word is that European leaders will be summoned here on Friday to finalise the deal that finance ministers could not conclude.
The statement issued last night was a study in vagueness (see my earlier post), but the outlines of a compromise are becoming clearer: in exchange for a willingness by private bond-holders to support some form of debt rollover for Greece, euro-area members will have to support Greece in buying back its bonds from the secondary market.