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Tsipras Says Samaras Continues IMF Mistake

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has lambasted Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras for staying with austerity measures ordered by international lenders even though the International Monetary Fund...

IMF's Economist Says Greece Put In Vise

With the International Monetary Fund backpedaling from a torrent of criticism over its admission that it mishandled a plan to deal with Greece's crushing debt, the agency's chief economist Olivier Blanchard said that the fund and the European Union...

Troika To Squeeze Samaras Over Reforms

On the heels of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitting it vastly underestimated the effect of austerity measures in Greece demanded as part of bailouts, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will have to negotiate tough new terms with the country's...

Olli Rehn Accuses IMF of 'Washing its Hands' on Greece

European Union Economics Chief Olli Rehn had harsh words for the International Monetary Fund Friday as he responded to a report by the IMF criticizing the European Commission over the Greek bailout. "I don't think it's fair and just that...

German SPD Wants the Truth About Greek Rescue

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) asked the German government to reveal “the truth about Greece” and the danger according to which German taxpayers may lose part of the rescue packages’ money, in the light of the International...

Papaconstantinou Hit With Breach Of Trust

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, already being investigated by a parliamentary committee because the names of three of his relatives were removed from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts, now will...

EU Disputes IMF's Greek Mea Culpa

The European Commission, one of the Troika of Greece's rescue lenders, took a big step back on June 6 from an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report that said the bailouts were flawed because austerity measures had a more...

WSJ: IMF to Admit Big Fat Greek Bailout Blunders

Talk about a mea culpa. The International Monetary Fund is set to admit that it has made a number of big mistakes over the last three years in its handling of the bailout of Greece, which has been the...

Troika Frets Over Greek Tax Collections

Inspectors from Greece's international lenders saw some procedural problems on their first day in Athens - after three years of pleading, urging, insisting and demanding - the government still has done little to revamp a tax collection system that...

Troika Back In Athens, Firings Seen Next

Inspectors from international lenders are due back in Athens on June 4 to check Greece’s books again in the ongoing progress of reviewing the pace of reforms, and the focus will reportedly be on the stalled issue of firing...