Eurogroup

The Greek government will rush to complete the second bailout program evaluation by December 5, when the euro zone finance ministers will convene for the last time in 2016. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stressed the issue in the first cabinet meeting...

Yanis Varoufakis disliked the Eurogroup president, refused to negotiate and caused Greece to lose six precious months," writes EU Commissioner for financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici in his book. In his latest book entitled "If it's Midnight in the Century," the...

Michel Reijns, spokesman of Eurogroup's chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, made clear on Wednesday that the statement regarding "social security measures" does not concern pension reforms, but the minimum guaranteed income. Dijsselbloem had informed the Dutch lawmakers on Tuesday that measures concerning...

The progress made so far in negotiations and the issues that will dominate the second review of Greece’s program were discussed in the first meeting between the government and representatives of the institutions in Athens on Sunday, finance ministry...

The debt relief measures the Greek government is trying to achieve will not suffice to bring investors, says the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) weekly newsletter. The SEV newsletter points out that the short term debt easing measures European creditors...

The solution of Greece's debt relief issue lies solely in the hands of the euro zone member states, said European Commissioner for Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici. The commissioner's statement came as a response to a request tabled by 36 European...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Greece must have the management of its privatization fund in place by the end of 2016, Reuters reports. Schaeuble spoke in the aftermath of Monday's Eurogroup in Luxembourg, where euro zone finance ministers...

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said he’s pleased with the result of Monday’s Eurogroup as he spoke to the press after the meeting in Luxembourg. "There was a very good Eurogroup for Greece. It was unanimously decided that Greece had completed...

The Eurogroup welcomed the implementation of the 15 milestones set for Greece in the context of the first review of the European Stability Mechanism's program, however, this did not result in the unlocking of the full 2.8-billion-euro tranche benchmarked...

On Monday afternoon (today), the Eurogroup in Luxembourg will decide on the disbursement of the 2.8 billion euros loan tranche to Greece. The meeting of the euro zone finance minister officials will be preceded by a Euro Working Group session...