Wolfgang Schaeuble
Economy
Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis to Meet US President Obama on Thursday
Greece's outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is expected to meet with United States President Barack Obama on Thursday, his ministry said.
The Greek Finance Minister is currently in Washington participating in the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund...
Economy
German Govt and Media: Greece Hasn't Sent a Complete Reforms List
Totally clear to what Greece should do to receive the financial aid appeared today German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's spokesperson Martin Jaeger. As he said, the Greek side has not yet submitted a complete list of proposals to the...
Economy
Greek Government Denies Scenarios Over FinMin Varoufakis Resignation
German newspaper Bild published a report today regarding scenarios over Greece's outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' resignation, which has been strongly denied by government officials. As cited by Reuters, the two unnamed officials have said that "none of this...
Greece
Greek President and German Finance Minister Hold Telephone Talks
President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble held telephone talks late on Tuesday evening, discussing ways to boost bilateral cooperation between Greece and Germany in order to effectively tackle the problems of the...
Economy
French President Hollande: No Time to Lose for Greece
French President Francois Hollande has expressed his concerns over Greece's tightening deadline to propose its reforms program that are in line with its existing commitments agreed with the country's creditors. As he said, Greece must speed up the progress...
Greece
Legal Experts: Greece Has Grounds for WWII Reparations
A growing number of legal experts are supporting Greece's demands over the German war reparations from the country's brutal Nazi occupation during World War II. Despite the official German refusal to address the issue, legal experts say now Athens...
Economy
German FinMin Schaeuble: Time Running Out for Greece
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble proceeded to yet another foreboding estimation for the Greek program's future. Addressing a news conference held in Berlin about the German government's spending plans he stated that the time for the country which is...
Economy
The Tsipras-Merkel Meeting Will Be to Break the Ice, Not Break Up
As the Greek state coffers look conspicuously empty and the tension created between the Finance Ministers of Greece and Germany doesn't seem to ease up, the upcoming meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Greece
German Politicians in Support of Greek Plea for War Reparations
Leading politicians from the junior partner in Germany's coalition government expressed their support to the idea that Germany should pay reparations from World War II to Greece, saying that it is their country's moral and legal duty. In an...
Economy
German FinMin: 'The New Greek Government Destroyed All the Trust'
A new verbal attack against Greece was launched by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ahead of Monday's meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, March 23 in Berlin.
Schaeuble was sepaking at a...