Wolfgang Schauble

Wolfgang Schäuble says he feels vindicated by the results of often painful reforms carried out in exchange for EU loans in Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus. In an interview with the Financial Times (FT); as he prepares to change jobs...

Yanis Varoufakis stole the limelight during a speech at Patras on Wednesday night when he wore a t-shirt depicting a man on a wheelchair tramping over another man accompanied by the slogan: «It’s the economy stupid!» The reference to German...

Wolfgang Schäuble; the all-powerful finance minister of Germany and staunch supporter of austerity in southern Europe and especially in Greece, is to leave his post after Sunday’s elections. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) announced that he will be nominated...

The Greek debt crisis features strongly in the German election campaign as the social-democrats of SPD accuse their coalition partners of Angela Merkel’s CDU of undermining the EU. On Tuesday, during the last session of the German Parliament prior to...

When asked about Athens' plans to payout Christmas bonuses to pensioners during an interview with the newspaper Die Zeit, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble reiterated his hard-line approach in tackling the bailout issue stating that the eurozone will be in...

According to Reuters, on Sunday Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble commented to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he believes the answers to Greece's financial woes should come in the form of reforms rather than debt relief. In order to sustain itself...

The finance ministers of France and Germany have voiced hope that Athens will soon reach a new bailout deal with its international lenders. Both also urged the IMF to continue its involvement with the debt issue. Creditors are hoping to...

The United States incited Europe to proceed with Greece's evaluation regarding the bailout program without any further delay and to keep their promise regarding the "trimming" of the country's debt. In a talk with Wolfgang Schäuble, US Finance Minister Jack...

Norbert Walter-Borjans, Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, has revealed that he actually offered his assistance in tax-related matters to the government of Antonis Samaras in 2012, just like Syriza MPs claimed recently, but he was turned...

Greece is once again at the center of today’s Eurogroup in Brussels as there is urgent need to examine the course of negotiation talks between the Greek government and its creditors. The first meeting in Athens between the two sides...