Greece

Greece’s influential central banker was quoted on Sunday as saying that the IMF should not be persuaded otherwise if it wants to exit the Greek program, fueling speculation ahead of negotiations aimed to conclude the third review of the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will not participate in the funding of Greece’s bailout program if there’s no “reliable strategy for the sustainability” of the country’s debt, the fund’s spokesman William Murray said on Thursday, during a regular press...

Failing to continue the Greek programme would be an "irresponsible action," Germany's Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview with the Greek newspaper "To Vima" published on Saturday. At the same time, he added, it was...

Greece successfully pushed for the insertion of a special reference to action for fighting unemployment in the final conclusions of the European Council, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a press conference after the EU summit on Friday. He...

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) issued a clarification on a report published in Reuters on Tuesday, in which Director General Klaus Regling was quoted as saying that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not have to contribute with funds...

Greece's debt will be discussed in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive committee meeting on February 6, reliable sources reported on Thursday, noting that the fund's political disagreement with Germany continues. The debt sustainability report to be presented at the...

The Greek program can proceed without IMF's participation, stated Interior Minister Panos Skourletis on Monday adding that a political interlocutor is better than an inflexible technocrat that wants to implement recipes that did not have positive results in most...

A possible IMF withdrawal from the Greek programme does not mean a new memorandum, government sources said on Friday, noting that an agreement exists and maybe this agreement needs to pass from the German parliament. According to the same sources,...

On Saturday while speaking on Skai TV, Telecoms and Media Minister Nikos Pappas commented that “The German finance minister never wanted the Greek program to succeed.” While speaking on the news show about the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, Minister Pappas...

European Commission spokeswoman Annika Breidthardt on Tuesday said that the Greek programme is absolutely credible when asked to comment on IMF officials statements on Monday on IMF's blog. "We read very carefully the post of IMF officials" said Breidthardt adding...

The European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) released a joint statement on Thursday on the Greek program and debt sustainability: "The institutions and the Greek authorities have made important...

The world economy is increasingly at risk of stalling, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday as it once again cut its forecast for global growth prospects. More precisely, the IMF estimated for Greece that the GDP has collapsed by 0.2% in...

For the first time after six years there’s complete agreement between the Greek government and the institutions on when the country’s program review will conclude, which will be by April 22, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday speaking...

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...

The Greek program review can be concluded by the end of April, EC's mission chief to Greece Declan Costello said in a meeting of Greek and European Parliament members, according to Europarliament SYRIZA deputy Dimitris Papadimoulis. During the meeting of...