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The former finance minister of Germany Wolfgang Schäuble, who became a household name in Greece and Europe during the Greek financial crisis, died on Tuesday night. He was 81. A veteran leading member of the Christian Democrats (CDU), Schäuble was...

Silvina Batakis, nicknamed La Griega ("the Greek"), a leftist economist of Greek descent, was appointed Finance Minister in Argentina on Sunday, a day after the abrupt resignation of Martín Guzmán. Batakis will be responsible for managing an economy burdened with...

Wolfgang Schäuble, the former Finance minister of Germany and the current President of the German Parliament, gave an interview to Berliner Morgenpost newspaper on Monday in which he admitted that he ''asked a lot from the Greeks'' during the...

The demands put forward by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which require that Greece legislates now for measures that will be implemented after the end of the current bailout program are side-lining democratic values, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said...

The Finance Minister has extended the deadline for making amendments to annual declaration forms for property owners due to numerous errors on the incoming forms received so far. The reposes to the errors on the part of the government has been...

What the impact of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union this past Thursday will have on the Greek economy will have to be examined carefully, but there’s no issue of a Greek exit from the Union, Finance Minister...

Wages and pensions are not excluded from the automatic spending cuts the Greek government is obligated to make if it fails to reach fiscal targets in 2017. Greece has proposed to its lenders a mechanism that would automatically cut state...

Former finance minister Gikas Hardouvelis admitted that he sent money abroad to foreign bank accounts in 2012, because, as he put it, he was "worried, like all Greeks." Hardouvelis appeared on Star television after newspaper reports on his actions. The former...

Former head of Financial Crime Squad (SDOE) and public prosecutor Yiannis Diotis is accused by former finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou that he is responsible for adulterating the "Lagarde List". Giorgos Papakonstantinou served as finance minister during the George Papandreou administration...

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the electorate is excited with the new deal when he spoke to CNN a few hours before sending the final list of reforms by the Greek government to its European partners. Mr. Varoufakis spoke to...