Greece

A new book published on Thursday about the history of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) reveals new details of how Greece's exit from the Eurozone was on the table for negotiations in 2015. Perhaps most surprisingly, this was the...

The former Prime Minister of Greece, Antonios Samaras, revealed in a documentary aired by SKAI on Thursday night, that Angela Merkel proposed a temporary Grexit in 2012. Samaras, speaking in the latest episode of SKAI TV's ''Greek Bankruptcy'' documentary, explained...

Meeting President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens on Thursday, former French President Francois Hollande referred to the Pavlopoulos' important role during the summer of 2015, immediately after the EU referendum held in Greece. According to Hollande, the...

The Grexit threat in July 2015 was not a bluff, said former French president Francois Hollande, speaking about the crucial negotiations before the agreement was made on Greece's third bailout program. In an interview with the Sunday edition of Kathimerini,...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis reiterated that he had never threatened creditors with a Grexit; and announced his decision to run in the European elections with his party; DIEM25. On Wednesday night's interview on Alpha TV; Varoufakis spoke again about...

Speaking Saturday at the opening of the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the Greek economy is turning around and will no longer be under the supervision of the country's creditors in 2018. To demonstrate his optimism,...

The Greek debt crisis features strongly in the German election campaign as the social-democrats of SPD accuse their coalition partners of Angela Merkel’s CDU of undermining the EU. On Tuesday, during the last session of the German Parliament prior to...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Christian Lindner, the pro-market German Free Democrats party (FDP) leader and potential partner in Angela Merkel's next government, proposes a quid pro quo for Greece: a debt "haircut" in exchange for exit from the...

New information is coming to light following the publication of Yanis Varoufakis’ book Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. The book will be published in Greece in September. According to excerpts published by Greek newspaper Proto...

Russia would offer Greece cash in advance for a gas pipeline in case the country was forced to leave the euro zone in the summer of 2015, said former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis. Lafazanis told Vima FM that in the...

"Grexit is now off the table," the head of the Eurogroup Working Group Thomas Wieser said on Friday, while speaking at the Delphi Economic Forum taking place at European Cultural Centre of Delphi between March 2-5. If all sides...

"The possibility of a Grexit is still lingering. We need a Greece that is serious," said former prime minister Costas Simitis from the 2nd Delphi Economic Forum podium on Friday. Simitis noted that "the government thinks that Greece is in...

A new opinion poll for Stern magazine shows that 52 percent of Germans are in favor of Greece leaving the euro zone. According to the poll conducted by Forsa Research Institute, more than half of Germans (52 percent) are in...

"Anyone who turns Europe and Germany against each other commits a sin against the future of our country. It is not a wise thing to reiterate the discussion about Greece's exit from the eurozone...We must stand up with determination...

John Koudounis, the CEO of Calamos Investments and somebody with extensive knowledge on the Greek debt issue talks to Greek Reporter about Greece. The new difficulties the country is facing have made many media outlets to be talking about a...