Greece

Germany's pro-austerity Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is ready to quit his job and become head of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said on Wednesday, following Sunday's election. Schaeuble is deeply...

Leader of the ruling CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag, Volker Kauder, speaking on Thursday to Focus magazine, warned the Greek government not to have illusions and made it clear that the IMF should remain in the Greek program,...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has once again raised the issue of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) participation in the running program of aid towards Greece. The CDU party believes that the IMF's...

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD) are highly critical of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, for their decision to turn down an “extraordinarily generous”...

"No special treatment for Greece," said CDU lawmaker Volker Kauder, adding a new episode in the caustic verbal exchange between Greek and German officials. Kauder, who is considered to be Angela Merkel's "right hand," spoke to German newspaper Bild on...

Athens might have struck a deal with its partners on Friday’s Eurogroup, although the agreed four-month extension of the loan agreement has to now be approved by the Eurozone member states’ national Parliaments. German Chancelor Angela Merkel has warned...

The parliamentary head of Angela Merkel's party warned Sunday that crisis-wracked Greece had "no room for manoeuvre" ahead of talks this week between the German chancellor and the Greek prime minister. Volker Kauder, parliamentary group leader of Merkel's conservative bloc,...

During the past hours, the Greek media has been circulating a shocking German article from http://www.german-foreign-policy.com that argues than in Berlin, authorities are considering coup scenarios  and other ways to use armed forces to impose their will on Greece. The article is entitled “ On...