International Monetary Fund
Crime
Lagarde List Probe Finds Rampant Tax Cheating
More than 3 1/2 years after first receiving it, Greece is speeding the pace of looking into a list of 2,062 citizens with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts and after only 72 inspections has found the depositors...
Economy
WSJ: Secret Meeting Held on Greece
According to a publication by the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal, Greece’s creditors seem to be deeply concerned about the rhythm in which the Greek structural reforms are being put through by the government.
The article published late on Friday reveals...
Economy
Proposal for 10% Single Tax On Savings
The idea was well hidden in the report of the International Monetary Fund which provided a 6.5 billion euro budget gap for Greece. The IMF proposed the imposition of a one-off capital levy of 10% on individuals in order...
Economy
IMF Report Disputes Greek Surplus Claims
A report from one of Greece's international lenders, the International Monetary Fund has rattled the government because it estimates that a third bailout of about 6.9 billion euros - with corresponding austerity measures that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras swore...
Economy
Samaras Talks Debt Cut in Washington
After a meeting in Washington, D.C., with International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, one of Greece's Troika of international lenders, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader, again began fishing for a debt cut he said...
Greece
Greek Healthcare System Ranked 30th Worldwide
This month Bloomberg identified the most and the least efficient health care systems on a worldwide basis, highlighting those of Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan as the world's best.
On the same list Greece holds the 30th place while the...
Economy
New Greek Aid Seen At 10B Euros
Speculation that Greece will need additional rescue aid for its economy is rapidly turning toward certainty with another European Union official acknowledging it seems inevitable and will be about 10 billion euros ($13 billion) to complement two bailouts totaling...
Economy
IMF's New Greek Austerity Mea Culpa
The International Monetary Fund, in a new working paper, has admitted again it vastly underestimated the crushing effects of austerity on Greece even as it said it's going to insist on more.
The IMF last year tried to distance itself...
Economy
Greek Civil Aviation Workers Go on 3-Day Strike
A three-day strike from early in the morning of August 9 until midnight on August 11 will be conducted, as decided by the Federation of Associations of Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (OSYPA), reacting to the government’s decision to fire...
Economy
IMF Says It Will Finance Greece, Pending Review
The International Monetary Fund said Thursday that it would continue to finance Greece as long as it is able to complete a review of the cash-strapped country's finances by the end of July as expected.
The statement by the Washington-based...