Wolfgang Schauble
Economy
Greece at the Center of Today’s Eurogroup Meeting
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...
Economy
Germany Remains Adamantly Opposed to Greek Debt Relief
No matter how one feels about Germany’s handling of the Greek debt crisis, one must admit that the masters of the Eurozone are thoroughly consistent in their views and do not oscillate back and forth, like the ECB does,...
Greece
Twitter Says #ThisIsACoup As EU Strangles Tsipras and Greece
In the most crucial meeting for the Eurozone, EU leaders are pushing even further for more austerity in Greece.
Twitter users are reacting heavily to Greece's creditors demands that many call unreasonable and undemocratic.
The past hour the hashtag #ThisIsACoup (#2 hashtag...
Economy
Eurogroup Head: Greece has Closed Door on Further Talks
Arriving to the meeting, Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters that he was very negatively surprised by Greek government’s decision to call a referendum adding that Athens has closed the door on future talks. In the same line, Germany’s...
Economy
'Word Battle': The New Greco-German Game to Practice Negotiation Skills
With Greece and its strictest European creditor, Germany, trapped into a new "word battle" game over the terms of Greece's bailout plan, the impersonal financial jargon of the past has changed into barefaced personal attacks, hardening Greek and German people's nationalistic antagonism,...
Economy
SYRIZA Central Committee Secretary: We don't Recognize the Agreement with the Troika
The denial of his party to stick with the two-month extension of the Greek program expressed the Secretary of the Central Committee of main opposition SYRIZA, Dimitris Vitsas, leaving at the same time the possibility open of not even recognizing the agreement...
Economy
Schaeuble Says Greeks Can't Blame Others For Their Fiscal Woes
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, whose country has insisted on harsh austerity measures in return for contributing to international bailouts propping up the Greek government, said Greeks should be praised for their sacrifices but not blame Germang or the...
Economy
Schäuble Plans Credit Fund For Small Greek Businesses
The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble announced on Wednesday that discussions between the Greek coalition government and eurozone finance ministers concerning the financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises in Greece have already begun.
Mr. Schäuble, after the Eurogroup meeting...
Economy
Schäuble: 'There Will Be No Further Haircuts'
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,...
Economy
Markets Prepare for New Aid to Greece
“There is almost no private investor who could be scared of the news about a new rescue package to Greece,” Jörg Kraemer chief economist at Germany's Commerzbank stated, referring to the possibility of a new bailout for Greece after...