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Decisive week for Greek programme begins with proposal from Athens
EconomyProgrammeof recent statements by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on the International.... Meanwhile, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is preparing the government proposal to be presented
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ESM and EFSF approve short-term debt relief measures for Greece
EconomyProgrammebillion euros that was used to finance the debt buy-back in late 2012. EFSF also said... in the Greek Parliament’s general assembly on December 9, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos
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The place where sanity goes to die
Agorain the regular gathering of the eurozone finance ministers. Dijsselbloem struggled to explain how... compromises mostly on their part. Entering the Eurogroup on Thursday, German Finance Minister
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Tsipras facing limited options as he waits for signs from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeadline when eurozone finance ministers met last week. It seems that while there could be an agreement... at the Finance Ministry, insisted that this year’s fiscal overperformance of roughly 1.5 percentage points
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Athens accepts review's toughest fronts remain open
EconomyProgrammeissue. The same sources reiterated Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos’s recent statement... the last meeting of eurozone finance ministers on January 26, that “a third [of prior actions] have
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Athens gears up for deal with lenders, pending news from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat will be taken by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is one of the greatest concerns... programme to be torn up and a new one drafted. Reacting to a question about the report, a German Finance
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Lenders make proposal to Athens but no immediate breakthrough expected
PoliticsGreek Politics. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with the heads of the institutions and Eurogroup chief Jeroen... finance minister noted that the February 20 Eurogroup would simply “take stock” of the review’s
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Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier
AgoraThe mist is gradually lifting and the choices available to the beleaguered Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are becoming clearer. The proposal put to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos by Greece’s... least, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s days in government may be numbered if the social
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Tsipras defends compromise, appears optimistic on concluding review
PoliticsGreek Politicsoptimism that it will lead to the conclusion of the review. Like Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos a day... called on the German Finance Ministry in particular to drop its demands for targets of 3.5 percent
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Greece searches for balanced deal as talks get underway in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere was a low-key start to the negotiations between Greece’s lenders and government officials in Athens on Tuesday. The first meeting of the day saw Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos discuss.... The finance minister said he could not go into greater detail about the discussions and what measures have
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