Thomas Wieser

The six-month reign of Yanis Varoufakis at the Greek Finance Ministry in the first half of 2015 cost the country about €200 billion ($246 billion), Thomas Wieser, former president of the Eurogroup Working Group has claimed. Speaking at the Delphi Economic...

It was only in the last year of Greece’s bailout that the SYRIZA administration embraced the program, Thomas Wieser, outgoing president of the Eurogroup Working Group responsible for Greece has said. In an interview on his departure from the post...

A senior EU official has told a Greek newspaper that the root of the country’s crisis was not fiscal, but administrative. In a wide-ranging interview with Kathimerini’s Sunday edition Thomas Wieser, outgoing president of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) also...

A senior EU official has warned that additional debt relief for Greece will require a new agreement with the creditors. In an interview published by Kathimerini on Sunday, Thomas Wieser , outgoing president of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) said...

Greece will remain under strict supervision by its creditors for years, said the head of the EuroWorking Group, Thomas Wieser. In an interview with Ethnos newspaper, Wieser emphasized that he would not be around; in the commission, to see the...

Mission chiefs of Greece's creditors are likely to change in the autumn, one year before the completion of the bailout program, a Kathimerini report says. Declan Costello, chief representative of the European Commission for Greece's bailout program, is likely to...

Thomas Wieser, President of the Eurogroup Working Group told Austrian based ORF radio, on Saturday that his hope is that Greece can tap into international markets by spring 2018. "It is my hope that it will happen from autumn 2017 or spring 2018 that foreign...

In an interview with Austrian newspaper "Salzburger Nachrichten," Euro Working Group Head Thomas Wieser expressed his positive outlook for Greece in the upcoming June 15 Eurogroup and at the same time didn't hesitate to label the excessive demands of...

The Grexit matter is completely off discussions, according to Thomas Wieser, head of Euro Working Group. Speaking to the Austrian newspaper WirtschaftsBlatt, Mr. Wieser said that no one wishes to bring up any more the prospect of a Grexit as...

Euro Working Group President Thomas Wieser  has illuminated what Greece needs to do to receive additional funds from the bailout in the short term. During an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, Wieser stated that Greece's new 86 billion euro bailout agreement, has...