Greek financial crisis

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to hold a meeting in Washington on May 2 on the financial situation in the broader European Union and eurozone, while also addressing...

In a recent interview with the online edition of German magazine Der Spiegel, the head of the EU’s Task Force in Greece monitoring the bailout agreement there, Horst Reichenbach, said that the return of Greece to bond markets may...

The approval in the early hours of Monday morning by Greece's parliament of the critical omnibus reform bill needed to release a delayed €10.5 billion instalment from international lenders means the sustainability of Greece’s debt hinges upon a new cycle of negotiations. Beyond gearing up for...

As Chief of Staff for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its official representative to the G20, Mexican Gabriela Ramos is perhaps among the world's most powerful women, and in a recent interview in Paris with Greek...

The City at a Time of Crisis, a collective research project which aims to trace the effects of the financial crisis on public space in Athens and is funded by the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council, has released...

A study from the University of Cambridge showed that the Greek financial crisis has deadly effects on Greek citizens. The study entitled Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy was conducted by a team of scientists from...

German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble seemed rather positive about “providing limited aid” to Greece, stating that this will not include a new “haircut” to the already existing debt. "What we always said was that if Greece were to need further,...

In a recent study, the European think tank Bruegel, argues that Greece will soon have to take up a new bailout package of €40 billion, or freeze any payments to the eurozone until 2030. The influential Brussels-based research institute, which...

A video featured on the website of the German tabloid "Bild" talks about the “impressive confidence with which the Greek prime minister faces his critics” and the “passion with which he discusses the austerity measures that must be imposed.” The...

In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the leader of the Greek major opposition party Alexis Tsipras revealed his future plans in the case that he is elected Greek prime minister. Tsipras, who is currently paying a three-day visit...