Tag: Lagarde
Surprise from Lagarde: Let the Olympic Games Come Home to Athens, Permanently
While at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shocked many with her response...
Christine Lagarde Sends Letter to Greek PM over Wikileaks IMF “Disaster”
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde sent a letter to Greek PM Alexis Tsipras regarding an IMF staff conversation that was leaked and described that...
Lagarde and Tsipras Meet in Davos; IMF Reaffirms its Support of Greece During Crisis
On the second day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where leaders in politics and business meet to discuss aims to create the foremost...
Tsipras Will Meet ECB’s Asmussen
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) which is opposed to international bailouts and the austerity...
Papaconstantinou’s Fate In Judicial Hands
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, indicted two months ago by Parliament over his handing of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion...
Brazil Recalls IMF Rep Over Greek Criticism
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Brazil's representative to the International Monetary Fund, who abstained from a vote granting more aid to Greece after he said the...
Lagarde Says EU Must Cut Greek Debt
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope that international lenders will yet agree to cut Greece's debt even if it makes them take losses is...
Greece Targets Wrongdoing Civil Servants
Getting ready to transfer or fire up to 40,000 public workers over the next two years on the orders of international lenders, Greece is...
The Lagarde List’s Hidden “Housewives”
The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that...
Parliament Votes to Indict Papaconstantinou
Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being...
Panels Asks Charges For Papaconstantinou
A Greek Parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that has never...
Panel Out To Get Me Says Papaconstantinou
Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95...
