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Greece eyes temporary solution to liquidity problem from Brussels Group talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsscheduled Eurogroup. This is one of the reasons for which Athens hopes that its liquidity tightness... to have met some resistance during Thursday’s 5-hour cabinet meeting. The official government line
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Tsipras gives air of resistance but leaves door ajar for agreement
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTheodorakis emerged to claim he had been told the prime minister still had “one or two more moves” to make... if there is not an agreement with creditors. Tsipras also met on Tuesday morning with PASOK’s new chief Fofi Gennimata
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Tsipras faces lenders' wall in Brussels as political tension grows in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicswas almost identical to the one presented to Tsipras by Juncker earlier this month. Given that Tsipras had... this week. Potami’s Stavros Theodorakis met with European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
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The Greeks deserved better than this
Agoraback down at the last minute, giving Tsipras a deal that would be better than the one he could get... and facile slogans. It is no surprise that the other side met its new interlocutors with scepticism
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IMF preliminary DSA finds Greek debt unsustainable, points to need for debt relief
EconomyProgrammeEurogroup targets to be met a haircut of over 30 percent of GDP would be required. That said and given the fragile debt dynamics, the IMF suggests one option for recovering debt sustainability would
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Strengthened Tsipras shows willingness for deal with lenders after "No"
PoliticsGreek Politicsnight. Tsipras and Samaras had a particularly prickly relationship and had never met during either... that might not be substantially better than the one which was already on the table a couple of weeks ago
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Tsipras runs gauntlet as he seeks approval for proposals from cabinet, lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader Vangelis Meimarakis met with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Thursday morning but refused... leaders’ council, like the one held on Monday, or brief Parliament. It appears that Meimarakis feels
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Tsipras's proposals to lenders come under SYRIZA scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politics-term funding needs, involved borrowing from just one lender (the ESM) and will lead to the debt relief... the document. Lafazanis’s Left Platform reportedly met on Thursday night to assess the plan put
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Refugee crisis poses multiple political challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised on Friday an emergency plan to deal with a growing refugee and migrant crisis in Greece that has caught his government completely unprepared. Tsipras met... into a direct vote loser for Tsipras. This is one of the few areas in which Tsipras's coalition has
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Greece deal leaves many questions
AgoraAfter all the hoopla over Greece in recent months, it’s weird that the agreement of a deal on Tuesday was not met with more celebration. It certainly came as a surprise to most analysts that a deal... concerns, the IMF has been completely silent. This is worrying. One of the concessions Greece apparently
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