Crisis

The clash between governing party New Democracy and the main opposition party SYRIZA over the recent stock market crisis...

The deep recession and financial crisis along with the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party dominated in the messages of...

The former Prime Minister and central banker Lucas Papadimos gave a speech at a conference on growth and employment in Europe which was held at...

The Budget Office in Parliament has published its first quarterly report for 2014 and concludes that while the rate of recession is slowing down, the social...

The Deputy Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Asimakis Papageorgiou assured the Parliamentary Committee of Production and Energy...

While the coalition government was celebrating coming to an agreement with the troika after months of endless negotiations, the Deputy Minister of Agricultural...

The German Minister of Finances Wolfgang Schäuble gave an interview to the international news agency Reuters about how the IMF contributed towards increasing the credibility of European policy against the crisis. In the interview the German Minister claimed that the debt crisis in the Eurozone has “calmed down” and that he does not expect any […]

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has admitted that it was excessively optimistic and made some mistakes in the estimations of the GDP progress of its member states. In a “post mortem” report that was presented at the LSE in London on Tuesday, the OECD sought to examine its forecasts during and after […]

The Governor of the Bank of Greece Giorgos Provopoulos gave a lecture on the Greek financial crisis at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum based in London. According to Mr. Provopoulos, the sacrifices of the Greek people are starting to “pay off” and that Greece is about to return to growth. The central banker […]

The president of the European Parliament and the German social democrats party SPD Martin Schulz was impressed by Greece’s “remarkable” budget surplus and the steps taken forward, while asking for the EU to support the Greek efforts. Mr. Shulz appeared at a social democrat convention, where he explained that Greece’s overall goal must be to […]

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras recently gave an interview to Italian newspaper La Stampa where he stressed that Greece primarily needs a recovery plan that is not based on austerity, while arguing that his party’s goal not to deconstruct the EU, but rather to change it. Mr. Tsipras noted that a European summit is necessary in […]

The government Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Evangelos Venizelos is currently in the USA, where he is scheduled to meet with the Secretary of State John Kerry and the Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew. On Thursday Mr. Venizelos will meet with Mr. Kerry to discuss bilateral and international matters, as well as […]