Jean Claude Juncker

Several of the measures proposed by creditors in order to achieve an agreement belong to the "red lines," thereby they were rejected by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the early morning hours on Thursday in Brussels. "Greece cannot consider further...

Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem will participate in emergency talks between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday evening in Brussels. Tsipras will present Juncker with a 47-page plan of proposed reforms, while Juncker will...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made an optimistic statement shortly before his departure for Brussels where he will discuss Greece's proposal with creditors. Tsipras said: "I'm going to Brussels to discuss the Greek government's draft deal," noting that there is...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to urgently travel to Brussels on Wednesday where he will be presented with a new proposal to solve Greece's debt crisis. Greece's international creditors -- the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission and...

German media today are mainly focusing on the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, ECB President Mario Draghi, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and IMF director Christine Lagarde, in Berlin. The German newspapers Die Welt, Die...

Greece’s international creditors are finalizing the text of a bailout agreement that they will present to Greece, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Top officials from European institutions and the International Monetary Fund have sent a draft of the...

European leaders and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to accelerate negotiations and offer Greece a plan to consider in the coming days, according to a Bloomberg report. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank...

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis outlined a plan that he said will allow Greece to return to market borrowing, in an interview to Greek newspaper "Avghi." Among others, the plan called for the issue of a low-interest, 30-year loan...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's statement for a 1.8-billion-euro VAT deviation between Greece and its partners is an effort from the creditors' side to impose further austerity on Greece, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Wednesday. Varoufakis said that...

SYRIZA radicals reacted to a comment made by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who said he believes that SYRIZA is not a "normal party." Juncker said that he trusts Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras because he is becoming "increasingly responsible" but...