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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
of June from 321 billion at the end of March, according to the debt bulletin published by the Finance.... The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, announced on Tuesday that it will provide a trade finance facility of 100 million to Eurobank, marking the first entry
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After talks with lenders, Greece returns to list of tasks to secure next bailout payment
EconomyProgrammefor the second programme review. Finance Ministry sources said on Friday afternoon that there was significant... to appointed by the EC and the ESM with the consent of the Greek finance minister. The institutions have... on layoffs to 10 percent of total employees. Fiscal On the fiscal front, Finance Minister Euclid
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Programme talks on fiscal issues open wide range of concerns
EconomyProgrammeThe Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and the Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis held... the 2-hour discussion, Finance Ministry sources noted that it was jointly agreed that comprehensive.... The Finance Ministry has tried to play down the institutions’ concerns stressing the budget
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Eurogroup sees possibility of swift review but differences on debt relief remain
EconomyProgrammeof eurozone finance ministers on December 5. The Eurogroup briefly took stock of the state of play... on short-term debt relief measures to the Eurogroup Working Group later in November and to finance... be required in mid-2018 and that it is too early to quantify them. Before the Eurogroup, German Finance
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Presidential shuttle diplomacy between Athens and Berlin
Agora. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble lost no time in intervening in this debate. Before Obama had... and inside the Eurogroup of finance ministers. Injecting new momentum into the debt relief discussions... issue without disavowing her own finance minister. By contrast, the president-elect, Donald Trump
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Cat and mouse: Greece and Schaeuble
Agora, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble mentioned in an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung... of the code needed to crack the German finance minister’s comments. Never mind that Athens (not just...) welcoming the German finance minister’s views and barely containing its excitement at the prospect
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Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017
Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was due to meet with representatives of the institutions in Brussels... and the European Stability Mechanism argue that there is no cause for alarm. Eurogroup chief and Dutch Finance... Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has returned to his pet subject of Grexit, arguing that Greece would
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
the remaining differences in time for the next gathering of eurozone finance ministers on April 7. Speaking to MPs on Thursday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos suggested that a staff-level agreement... there would be any global deal (including debt relief and the fiscal path for the period Finance Minister
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Newsletter 120 - 26/05/2017
will be reached at the next gathering of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on June 15. Leaked... by Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, who suggested that it would cause a political crisis in Greece. He had... in financing among their eurozone peers, the latest ECB semi-annual survey on the access to finance
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Expectations for deal on Thursday rise as Athens tempers own
PoliticsGreek Politicsas among its lenders is that there will be some kind of compromise on Thursday. Even German Finance... Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire when he visited Athens on Monday, may form the basis for an agreement... that Euclid Tsakalotos’s job as finance minister is safe. There had been reports over the past few days
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