Search Results for: Euclid Tsakalotos
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
PM Tsipras to meet Draghi, Juncker, Lagarde ahead of Eurogroup
June 24th, 2015
As eurozone finance ministers converge in Brussels on Wednesday to further assess Greece’s economic proposals in a bid to move toward a deal, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank ...
Leaders push for deal as creditors await revised Greek proposals
June 9th, 2015
Representatives of Greece’s creditors were on Monday awaiting revised proposals from Athens as international pressure mounted for a reform deal, with US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushing for swift action to clinch an agreement. In ...
Greek goverment drafting multi-bill after overhauling negotiating team
April 28th, 2015
The Greek government on Monday announced a shake-up of the team negotiating with the country’s international creditors, after Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis came under fierce criticism from his eurozone peers at a summit in Riga last week due to ...
Greece Weakens Yanis Varoufakis’s Influence in Bailout Talks
April 27th, 2015
Country shuffles bailout team involved in talks with international creditors Greece has shuffled the team involved in bailout talks with the country’s international creditors, a senior government official said Monday, in a move that may reduce the influence outspoken ...
Greece confident of reaching agreement in make-or-break 24 April deadline
April 15th, 2015
Eurozone finance ministers to pass judgment next week on reform-for-cash deal that would unlock €7.2bn (£5.2bn) of financial assistance Greece has vigorously rebutted speculation that it will declare a debt default and plunge out of the eurozone if it fails ...
Greece’s Tsipras Meets Cabinet as Creditors Ponder Overhauls
March 30th, 2015
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is holding a cabinet meeting as Greek officials and creditors in Brussels discuss proposed overhauls for the country to secure more funds from the euro area and stave off fiscal collapse. Negotiations with Greece’s ...
Greece Grabs Cash as More Than $2 Billion in Payouts Loom
March 17th, 2015
Greece will begin debating measures to boost liquidity as the cash-starved country braces for more than 2 billion euros ($2.12 billion) in debt payments Friday. Unable to access bailout funding and locked out of capital markets, the government will ...
Greece will not default on bailout debts – PM Tsipras
January 28th, 2015
New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras says his country will not default on its debts. Addressing his first cabinet meeting since being elected on Sunday, the left-wing Syriza party leader said he would negotiate with creditors over the €240bn (£179bn; ...
Greece debt repayment in full is ‘unrealistic’, says Syriza
January 27th, 2015
It is unrealistic to expect Greece to repay its huge debt in full, the chief economics spokesman for the victorious Syriza party has told the BBC. “Nobody believes that the Greek debt is sustainable,” Euclid Tsakalotos said. The far-left ...