Evangelos Venizelos

Greek socialist leader George Papandreou on Saturday formally stepped down to enable his struggling party to elect a successor in time for a snap election expected next month. "The time has come for me to wage my battles from other...

The Greek government said it reached its target in the biggest sovereign restructuring in history, with a 95.7 percent participation rate among investors after it received approval to activate collective action clauses. Bondholders tendered 152 billion euros of Greek-law bonds,...

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos warned Athens' private creditors on Monday not to hold out but take the bond swap on which a second bailout of the debt-ridden country depends because it was the best deal they would get. Venizelos...

Greece’s finance minister says bank deposits in the country have fallen by €70 billion ($92.5 billion) since the start of the crisis in 2009. Evangelos Venizelos said in an interview with Antenna Television Monday that only €16 billion of the...

Euro-zone ministers will have a follow up discussion next week to make a final decision on the second Greek bailout package, Finland and Germany's finance ministers said Thursday. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the teleconference to approve a second...

The statement by the head of the authority to combat "black money", Panagiotis Nikoloudis, that a Greek MP took one million euros abroad in May 2011 was only the beginning, as Evangelos Venizelos said the information systems department of...

The Greek government braced for further anti-austerity protests Wednesday while the country's parliament was debating legal changes that would clear the way for a massive debt restructuring to keep Greece from defaulting on its loans next month. The legislation, which...

Greece's leaders battled to salvage a new 130-billion-euro ($170 billion) EU/IMF bailout on Wednesday, rejecting doubts over their commitment to a punishing austerity package just hours before a conference call of euro zone finance ministers. But with mistrust of Athens...

Eurozone finance ministers warned Greece on Thursday that they are not yet ready to unlock a new debt bailout despite an agreement between Greek political leaders on new austerity cuts. Luxembourg prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, arriving to chair Brussels talks...

Greek leaders face crunch talks on Tuesday to secure a new international bailout and avoid a chaotic debt default, caught between EU demands that they accept painful reforms immediately and a national strike against more austerity. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos...