EU summit

The two-day EU summit concluded after 14 hours of talks to provide short-term relief to Spanish and Italian banks by allowing the EU bailout fund to directly aid euro zone banks. The rules of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)...

The Troika of international lenders will return to Greece next week to review its performance and their audit is likely to take weeks rather than days, a German government source said on Thursday to Reuters. The officials from the European...

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, will deliver a letter from the Greek PM to the leaders of the Euro Zone in the upcoming summit in Brussels on June 28-29. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will sign the letter...

Greece’s new coalition government says the country’s president will lead its delegation to a European Union summit this week in place of the prime minister, who is recovering from eye surgery. Earlier, the government had said Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos...

Greece's government says its new prime minister will not be well enough to travel to a critical European Union summit in Brussels after undergoing an eye operation. Antonis Samaras underwent surgery for a detached retina Saturday. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou...

Meeting in Brussels yesterday evening (May 23), EU heads of state and governments indirectly called on Greek voters to support the mainstream political parties in support of the EU/IMF bailout program as talk of a Greek exit from the...

According to the German daily newspaper Die Welt, the German government has not ruled out the possibility of postponing the EU summit planned for this Sunday. The summit had already been postponed from 17 October, while the EU, IMF and ECB...

PM Papandreou is due to meet with opposition leaders Giorgos Karatzaferis, Aleka Papariga and Alexis Tsipras tomorrow to brief them on the important coming EU Summit on October 23 about the Greek debt and the Eurogroup conference. More particularly, Mr....

PM George Papandreou contacted the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barosso via telephone earlier in the afternoon to inform him of the latest developments and news concerning the Greek debt in view of the coming EU Summit. Mr....