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Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not
EconomyMonetary Fund also told Greek reporters in Washington that its representative, Poul Thomsen, would...,” as International Monetary Fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde put it. Greece presented a draft
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Greece could still leave euro, says Simitis, PM who engineered entry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEuropean Union and International Monetary Fund programme aims to do. Greek debt stood at 321.8 billion... and the International Monetary Fund that have indicated the measures implemented in Greece had not been properly
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Greece and troika: Bailout tranche, funding gap and debt relief still pending
PoliticsGreek Politics1.8 billion euros is due to come from the International Monetary Fund. This means that after... and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem have made it clear
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Greece’s first bailout, lenders and their pledge to maintain debt exposure
EconomyProgrammeThe Wall Street Journal and El Pais published over the weekend a revealing record of the minutes from the International Monetary Fund’s board meeting in May 2010, which sealed the organizations... was terminated in September 2012 and replaced by the legendary Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT
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Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coming months. Monday’s Eurogroup in Brussels concluded with European Economic and Monetary... Central Bank and International Monetary Fund would be back in Athens “in the coming days, towards
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No victory, just plenty of misery
Agorathe presence of the International Monetary Fund in your country. You are left hoping that those who finance... and undisputed reminder of how significant the announcement of the ECB’s Outright Monetary Transactions
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Greece lays out plans for debt relief from eurozone
EconomyProgrammefrom providing any debt relief because it considers this a form of forbidden monetary financing.... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) could also have a say in what happens. The Fund is reportedly
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BoG sees encouraging signs for Greek economy but warns on reforms
EconomyThe Bank of Greece (BoG) issued its Monetary Policy 2013-14 report on June 12, which is the last official publication by the current governor George Provopoulos, who will be succeeded by the former... Interim Monetary Policy report last December that the domestic economy will recover by about 0.5 percent
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NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system
Agorafor Greek banks remains the non-performing loans (NPLs). According to the International Monetary Fund... institutions so far in 2014. In its interim Monetary Policy report, the Bank of Greece revealed that the NPL
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Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
Agorain the monetary union would have created the perfect storm in the vicious cycle between sovereigns... the eurozone who trot out the tired argument that this process is monetary financing. Greece’s arguments
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