Tag: Christofias

Cyprus’ lawmakers are voting April 30 on a bailout agreement aimed at preventing the country from going bankrupt that includes 10 billion euros ($13...

Rocked by news that he needs to find a way to generate another 6 billion euros ($7.8 billion) on top of 7 billion euros...

Still feeling the heat for approving a plan to confiscate up to 80 percent of big bank deposits in return for a 10 billion...

With fury in Cyprus that large account holders in the country's banks could face 80-100 percent losses and see their money confiscated by the...

Delays and indecision by newly-elected Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades' government allowed a huge outflow of cash from the island's banks even though they were...

Ahead of a deal in which Cyprus’ government agreed to confiscate up to 30 percent or more of bank deposits over 100,000 euros, Archbishop...

Right-wing leader Nicos Anastasiades won the Cyprus Presidential election balloting on Feb. 17, but without the 50 percent majority he needed to claim the...

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece’s major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is scheduled to meet German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on...

The beginning of the end of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece in 1821, which gave birth to the modern Greek state, and the fall...

An international bailout of as much as $12.83 billion for Cyprus to prop up its banks pushed to the edge of insolvency by exposure...

Cyprus' Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly is ready to step down if President Demetris Christofias does not sign a memorandum of agreement with international lenders...

ATHENS - Failing to meet his goal of finding peace with Turks occupying the northern third of the island and with his country’s banks...