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Newsletter 98 - 02/12/2016
Moscovici. A day earlier, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos challenged the institutions to lower... way to improve Greek competitiveness, which German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble insists... on the agenda of Monday’s Eurogroup, while eurozone finance ministers will also return to the issue
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
and French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, but the dispute over the pension payments is a sideshow... round of meetings last month. Finance Ministry sources noted that the issues of labour market reforms..., compared to 4.34 billion a year ago, according to the Finance Ministry’s (MoF) preliminary budget execution
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Shaping the post-programme narrative in Greece
Agoraof finance ministers took stock of the second review currently being carried out by Greece’s official... contributed roughly 28 billion euros of creditor finance, thereby exceeding Greece’s allocated funding..., finance minister Yanis Varoufakis initially delayed and then suspended a repayment obligation to the Fund
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Review talks continue in Athens in shadow of pension benefit row
EconomyProgrammeprivatisation and investment fund (HCAP). Finance Ministry sources noted that great convergence was achieved...-of-court workout. It is worth noting that the Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will be in Berlin... at mission chiefs’ level during this third round of meetings in Athens. Earlier this week, Finance
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Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016
– even though eurozone finance ministers signed off on the measures at the December 5 Eurogroup... initiatives that will not be repeated, nor have any impact on Athens meeting its fiscal targets. Finance... as it sees fit. In Germany, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stressed the need for everyone
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Athens eyes fiscal compromise to complete programme review
PoliticsGreek Politicsfew weeks. In an interview with Kathimerini published on New Year’s Eve, Finance Minister Euclid... of concession on Greece’s part. The finance minister said that if the IMF’s projections... of eurozone finance ministers is scheduled for February 20. This would leave Athens targeting the April 27
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Newsletter 102 - 13/01/2017
of managing to conclude matters by next month. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with his French... the meeting of eurozone finance ministers on January 26, when the most that Athens hopes... 2012. Specifically, the Finance Ministry expects HICP to grow by 0.6 percent, while European
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Athens warms to idea of eurozone going it alone after Schaeuble IMF comment
EconomyProgrammeIn an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble raised... statements, Greek Finance Ministry sources noted that “the possibility the programme could continue... to meet its obligations beyond June without external funding, it is possible that the German finance
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Athens holds back proposal details ahead of Thursday's Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Finance Ministry revealed on Monday morning that Euclid Tsakalotos wrote to the institutions... as the finance minister is expected to hold high-level talks ahead of Thursday’s Eurogroup. However... anything concrete emerges from the meeting of eurozone finance ministers. The government’s concerns
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IMF's outlook on debt unsustainability adds to doubts after inconclusive Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeof the four institutions insisted in a meeting with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos ahead... Finance Minister Michel Sapin backed up the Greek government, which insisted that this kind of legislation.... However, the Dutch finance minister insisted that the institutions did have a “common position
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