Evangelos Venizelos

“The procedures for electing the new PASOK leader should be completed by January” stated according to sources, FM Evangelos Venizelos during Pasok’s political council on Tuesday. Venizelos proposed the preparations to begin before January 15 in order to be...

Resistance and difficulties still exist between Greece and its private bondholders on a number of issues in talks for a new debt swap plan, the deputy finance minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Yannis Mourmouras, one of three deputy...

Greece has amassed debts estimated at EUR 360 billion. At the same time its top politicians are really wealthy, especially Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, writes German Die Welt daily. In the peak of the crisis in the euro area for...

A source from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) has today categorically denied that there should be any reason for optimism as expressed yesterday by Greece's Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, over a framework deal between the Greek government and creditor...

Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos was hopeful on Tuesday of at last reaching a deal with private sector bondholders that is key to a new bailout package for the country. "We are close to an agreement, I believe that," Venizelos said...

Greece was holding tightrope talks on Monday with its creditors and debt holders on details of a new eurozone bailout to enable the country to repay debt. Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was meeting senior auditors from the eurozone, the...

Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said the country had fulfilled the requirements to receive the 6th tranche of its bailout. The EUR8 billion slice is vital to keep Greece funded after mid-December. "The necessary conditions for the next tranche disbursement and...

Greek austerity measures for 2011 and 2012 have been legislated and need to be implemented to remove the country from “mortal danger,” Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told reporters in Thessaloniki late yesterday, according to an e-mailed transcript sent by...

One of the three "inalienable" conditions imposed by the New Democracy leader, Antonis Samaras, to support a national salvation government in Greece, was the date of early elections, which he had helped to ensure would be scheduled for February...

Greece has authorized its finance and justice ministers to seek an out-of-court settlement with German conglomerate Siemens AG (SI) in the coming days over bribery allegations, a senior government official said Thursday. "Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos and Justice Minister Miltiadis...