Too early to "pin any number" on Greece's fiscal gap: Eurogroup chief

Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem late Monday stopped short of giving any specific figures regarding the size of the fiscal gap in Greece's adjustment program.

"The present EU mission has not been finalized. So, for me, it's too early to say and I could certainly not pin any number on it," Dijsselbloem said at a press conference after a meeting of eurozone finance ministers.

"There are fiscal issues which have to be addressed still, but I was a bit surprised by the numbers I was hearing before the meeting," said Dijsselbloem in response to media questions.

Earlier Monday, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen, speaking to reporters before the Eurogroup meeting, urged Greece to take measures to plug a hole in its 2014 budget plan.

"It's first and foremost important that they close their significant fiscal gap that is there for the next year," Asmussen told reporters.

The ECB official said a financing gap of five billion euros (about 6.8 billion U.S. dollars) to 6 billion euros has opened in the second half of 2014 under Greece's international rescue program.