Christine Lagarde

The nineteen Eurozone Finance Ministers appear to have reached an agreement at the Eurogroup meeting being held now in Brussels. The agreed drafted outline will form the basis for keeping liquidity flowing to Greece, while extending the country’s bailout...

Without an agreement between the Greek government and the country's European partners concluded a few minutes before 8:00 pm the critical Eurogroup held today in Brussels. The Greek side has characterized the Eurogroup draft statement as "unacceptable" and...

The talks between Greece and its EU partners on the country's fiscal program will continue at the Eurogroup meeting of Monday, February 16, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said at a press conference early on Thursday morning, adding that there...

The notorious "Lagarde List" should include a total of 2,148 names and not the 2,062 that are listed so far, according to a report in Ta Nea newspaper. The Lagarde List is a spreadsheet containing over 2,000 names of possible...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde is to meet Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis for the first time face-to-face on Wednesday during the emergency Eurogroup meeting being held to discuss the future of the Greek program. There is a...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have sent a clear message to Greece, warning that the new government's plan to abolish the Troika representing the country's creditors, cannot be easily fulfilled. As they highlighted, there might have been a contact between Greek Prime Minister...

An exit by Greece from the euro zone would be "devastating," the head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday. Speaking to Irish state broadcaster RTE, the IMF chief discussed the political situation in Greece ahead of...

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Greece about the consequences of a Greek debt restructuring after the January 25 elections where anti-memorandum SYRIZA is in the lead. The leftist political party, SYRIZA, claims that if elected...

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) negotiating team will return to Athens in January, aiming to successfully complete the sixth Greek bailout review, IMF deputy spokesman William Murray said during a press conference on Thursday at the Fund’s Washington headquarters. "We expect to...

Antonis Samaras’s plan for Greece to exit its bailout early is crumbling in the face of a vast market unravelling this week. Economists, meanwhile, are in near-unanimous agreement that the Prime Minister's exit strategy is largely to blame. Eighty-five percent of respondents...