Search Results for: Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras
Cyprus Central bank head says ready to act if Greece spills over
April 28th, 2015
Central bank governor says Cyprus and Greece decoupling Georghadji says Cyprus no longer at high risk from Greece Cyprus is ready to react to any spillover from the crisis in Greece, the governor of the island’s central bank said ...
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 ...
Dollar on defensive after more weak U.S. economic data
April 27th, 2015
The dollar started the week on the defensive on Monday after more disappointing U.S. economic data reinforced expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will not hike interest rates any time soon, while concerns about Greece‘s debt talks pressured the euro. ...
Grexit Fears Cause GDP Forecasts to Plummet
April 20th, 2015
Economists have severely cut their forecasts for core Greek economic indicators. That reflects growing concern that the debt burden of the southern European country may force an exit from the euro as its creditors grow frustrated with the lack ...
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 €459m debt payment to IMF due on Thursday
April 9th, 2015
Eurozone country is close to running out of cash and the ECB, the EU and the IMF have frozen further aid until they reach an agreement with its left-wing government Greece is due to make a €459m (£332m) loan repayment ...
Greece: Plans for cooperation with China
April 7th, 2015
Greece proposed a three-year cooperation plan to Beijing involving ports, ship building and repair, credit, supply chain and culture during Greek Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis’s recent visit to China, according to the Chinese government. Beijing said that it ...
Samaras Says He’d Join Alliance to Keep Greece in Euro
April 2nd, 2015
As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struggles to secure a financial bailout to stay in the euro, his chief rival said he’s open to offering a political rescue. Opposition leader Antonis Samaras, who was ousted by Tsipras in January ...
Greece PM says sanctions against Russia ‘a road to nowhere’
March 31st, 2015
The Greek premier stressed that the economic war is a “dead-end policy” Greece does not back the West’s sanctions against Russia as this is a “road to nowhere,” the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an exclusive interview ...
Greece says not backing down on debt relief goal
March 30th, 2015
Greece has not given up on its aim to renegotiate its debt to render it manageable, the country’s deputy finance minister said on Monday as talks between Athens and its lenders on reforms to unlock aid continue. “The government has ...
