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Greece: Where did it all go wrong?
Agoraproposed at a Eurogroup meeting in November 2012. This was a strategy fully supported by Finance Minister... austerity on a recession-ridden electorate but none of the fruits of meeting the troika’s targets.... This is what led the prime minister to travel to Berlin in late September and to announce, after his meeting
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New claim of attempt to bribe MP casts shadow over presidential vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsclaim to have footage of the meeting between Haikalis and the middleman during which the offer was made. Party leader Panos Kammenos also alleged that Haikalis was told during the meeting that he would... party. The meeting took place around the time that Samaras’s former cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos
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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
of pressing issues to resolve in the coming weeks. On January 26, a Eurogroup meeting will be held... of the bailout programme will be discussed at that meeting. The next important matter concerns Greece’s funding... approved BoG request for two weeks, a decision it will review at the next meeting of its governing council
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Pressing economic tasks mounting up for next Greek government
EconomyProgrammeof pressing issues to resolve in the coming weeks. On January 26, a Eurogroup meeting will be held... of the bailout programme will be discussed at that meeting. Funding needs The next important matter concerns... meeting of its governing council on February 4. Although the liquidity of Greek banks seems to be secured
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Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015
at the top of his agenda in his meeting with European Parliament president Martin Schulz on Thursday... privatisation projects. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday evening... of private shareholders. That said, he announced a meeting on Friday with Eurobank’s biggest shareholders
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After rocky start, some political backing for SYRIZA but ECB holds key
PoliticsGreek PoliticsJeroen Dijsselbloem on Friday, which followed a tense meeting between European Parliament president... in Athens after the meeting with Dijsselbloem, Varoufakis explained why the new government did not want... liquidity problems. Dragasakis pointed to Wednesday’s meeting between Tsipras and European Commission
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This is the deal Greece will go in search of at Wednesday's sceptical Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the extra Eurogroup meeting on Wednesday, February 11. The uncertainty may have been caused by Eurogroup.... Dijsselbloem said on Friday that if Greece does not ask for this by the Eurogroup meeting on February 16... for next week’s meeting of finance ministers was told that Athens would have to announce 8 billion
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Complications over president a taste of things to come for Tsipras?
PoliticsGreek Politics, several hours after a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels. Tsipras had been expected to name European... raised at a meeting of SYRIZA’s political secretariat, which met on Sunday. Lafazanis then went..., the presidential issue is very much linked to Monday evening’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
MPs. A length meeting of SYRIZA’s parliamentary group on Wednesday revealed that as many as 30...) told its annual general meeting on Thursday. Yannis Stournaras refrained from providing any... and Schaeuble in another to thrash out a deal before the meeting of the eurozone finance ministers began
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Tsipras seeks tone of cooperation and persistence at Merkel talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA lengthy meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel... Street Journal put it, the main message emanating from the meeting was: “Everybody, calm down.... Nevertheless, Monday’s meeting in the German capital as well as the talks between Tsipras and top
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