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A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsof reach for the time being. Although the International Monetary Fund reiterated its request
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Pension reform a precarious battleground for Tsipras and Mitsotakis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonetary Fund’s line (particularly with regard to the zero deficit rule.) Government sources referred
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
that the existing plan falls short of what is needed and the International Monetary Fund appears to be pushing... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot
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Tsipras caught between social tension and lenders' pressure as talks begin
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government is due to begin talks in Athens with the chief representatives of its lenders on Monday afternoon, in what is promising to be an extremely testing round of negotiations. The mission chiefs from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, European Commission
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
by the fact the International Monetary Fund appears to be insisting on cuts to pensions as the main path
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agorahimself in a corner is emphasised by the fact the International Monetary Fund appears
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Leaked IMF exchange sours mood before bailout review resumes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThis week will serve as a good guide to whether the furore over the publication by WikiLeaks of a secretly recorded conversation between Poul Thomsen, the head of the International Monetary Fund’s European department, and Delia Velculescu, the IMF mission chief will be a temporary domestic
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Tsipras plays to domestic gallery over IMF dispute
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSpeaking to SYRIZA MPs on Monday night, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave no clear indication that he intends to use the furore over the WikiLeaks transcript to force a situation in which the International Monetary Fund leaves the Greek programme. While Tsipras did continue his criticism
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Athens in quandary over IMF as Fund's role in bailout is firmed up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government continued on Wednesday to give mixed messages about the International Monetary Fund’s involvement in the bailout, despite Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirming Germany’s position that the IMF should be part of the programme following a meeting with the Fund’s managing director
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Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the International Monetary Fund. The reason for this appears to be that the IMF is sceptical about some
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