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China-Greece: One belt, one road?
AgoraBeijing’s point of view, Greece is to become a logistics hub for connecting China with European markets and the Middle East. The objective to establish a large Eurasian market via a European bridgehead.... It is rather in Beijing’s strategic interest to cooperate with European countries
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Greece eyes temporary solution to liquidity problem from Brussels Group talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe European Commission, European Central Bank, European Stability Mechanism and the International Monetary
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Greece hopes to catch break from ECB as IMF puts its foot down
PoliticsGreek Politicsnegotiating team Euclid Tsakalotos are due to meet European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in Frankfurt...’s lenders to hand over the ECB funds when he visited Brussels on Monday for talks with European... package. This raises three possibilities: Greece reaching a deal with just its European partners
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Greek DSA: Don't Say Anything about the debt
AgoraSYRIZA came to power, has a significant impact on the debt trajectory. The European Commission... that protected European private bondholders and the violation of the rule of supplying fund loans only... logic to be part of what was seen as a European, rather than a Greek bailout. Each time during
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As talks enter final stretch, Tsipras addresses broad, varied audience
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that the government wants labour legislation to be in line with European norms. This seems an attempt... the government’s image in European public opinion by combating the view that it is being unreasonable..., it appears that this new European power is being constructed, with Greece being the first victim. To some
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The key points from Greece's proposal to lenders
EconomyProgrammewith refinancing from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). 2) Debt to the IMF will be restructured... participation in the ECB quantitative easing programme. 5) The European Commission (EC... programme and policies to be funded by the EC and the European Investment Bank (EIB)
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Tsipras and lenders leave themselves with fading chances of salvaging deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsto him by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. This led to Juncker rejecting Tsipras’s... of a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday after the three held a conference call on Saturday... of intransigence from the Greek premier. Apart from Juncker, European Parliament President Martin Schulz
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Lenders dismiss Greek proposals but SYRIZA also ups pressure on Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsspending cuts and structural reforms after the European Commission appeared to dismiss Athens’s recent attempt to bridge the gap between the two sides. European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas... targets when he met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker last week. So far
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Greece deal hangs in balance as IMF sees major differences
PoliticsGreek Politicsand French President Francois Hollande, as well as two meetings with European Commission President Jean... not comment on any details following his meetings. European Council President Donald Tusk called... repeated comments by European officials that the ball is in Greece’s court. However, it appears
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Greece rides the ghost train
Agoraof negotiations also ended with no result. Greece’s European partners and the IMF have suggested that Athens... by Greece for the European Stability Mechanism to help buy up the Greek bonds the European Central
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