Greek programme

Council President Donald Tusk urged the eurozone to swiftly close talks on fresh reform measures for debt-hit Greece, saying it would help global economic stability. “I urge finance ministers to reach an agreement very soon,” Tusk told reporters as he...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the progress in negotiations to conclude the first review of the Greek programme during a telephone call held on Tuesday, Greek government sources revealed. They said the prime minister...

Commenting on the ongoing negotiations with the creditor institutions to wrap up the review of the Greek economic program, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with the state broadcaster ERT broadcast on Saturday night, that the goal...

The review of Greece's programme should ideally be concluded before April 12, a well-informed source in Brussels told the ANA-MPA on Friday, while clarifying that this depended on the required "political will." According to the same source, there was a...

Greece's credit rating could be upgraded to B, from CCC+ after completion of a first review of the Greek economic adjustment program, disbursement of loans according to a ESM schedule and probably combined with an ECB decision to begin...

Upon concluding the review of the Greek program, Greece's partners must also live up to their end of the bargain, both in terms of debt relief and in the way the European Central Bank approached Greek bonds and the...

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said that the Greek programme is moving in the right direction adding that the government will continue the hard work. Upon his arrival to the Ecofin meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, Tsakalotos stressed that the...

Dutch Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Tuesday repeated his government's position on the disbursement of loans to Greece, in a briefing letter to Dutch lawmakers, saying that the release of funds will only take place if...

The new programme for Greece has a "good chance" of succeeding, the European Commission's head of mission for Greece Declan Costello said, on Tuesday. Costello made the statement while attending an event on the Greek programme at the Centre...

PASOK on Monday accused the government of a persistent refusal to bring the extension of the loan agreement to the Greek Parliament. It also called on the government to publish on Monday –since the previous extension that was approved by...