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The European Central Bank has three alternatives on how to deal with the Greek issue, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The author of the report, Mohamed El-Erian, says that the ECB will be under pressure to play the important role...

Greece will go bankrupt after paying the International Monetary Fund 460 million euros and Europe must prepare for a Grexit, a Spiegel analysis says. According to commentator Wolfgang Munchau, Greece's payment to the IMF will probably leave state coffers empty...

The meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow will not resolve Greece's bailout problem, says a Financial Times report. There is speculation that after the impasse in negotiations between Greece and...

Several European Union officials believe that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must rid of SYRIZA's leftist platform and the nationalistic coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) in order for negotiations with creditors to have a positive outcome for Greece, according...

Former Greek prime minister and now opposition leader Antonis Samaras said he is willing to be part of a national unity government if Greece's stay in the euro zone is at stake. Samaras spoke to Bloomberg on Wednesday from the...

Debt in the euro zone has entered the "danger zone," said the head of Deutsche Bundesbank Jens Weidmann on Friday. He also said Greece is running out of time. Weidmann stated that in the euro zone public debt is at...

With the Greek government running out of cash by the end of April, Bloomberg speculates on three potential scenarios on the outcome of negotiations between Athens and creditors. With the word "Grexit" looming large after the new, leftist SYRIZA government...

With Norway being the most carefree nation in the world and Nigeria the most stressed-out country, Greece lies somewhere in the middle of the "Most Stressed Out Nations" list in a survey conducted by Bloomberg. Neighboring Turkey is less stressed...

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and SYRIZA MP and economics professor Costas Lapavitsas continued with clever quotes on the Greek debt issue, even though the former is in favor of the euro zone while the latter insists on a...

"No special treatment for Greece," said CDU lawmaker Volker Kauder, adding a new episode in the caustic verbal exchange between Greek and German officials. Kauder, who is considered to be Angela Merkel's "right hand," spoke to German newspaper Bild on...