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Greece should consider broadening its tax base and possibly accelerate lowering the threshold for tax-free incomes for 2019 instead of 2020, said IMF Director for European Affairs Poul Thomsen on Friday. Speaking during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is committed to continuing its support of Greece after the end of the fiscal program in August, but there is work that the country still needs to do, especially in structural reforms, IMF Managing...

Brussels and Athens are now turning their attention to Washington, where critical discussions on Greek debt relief will be held on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank spring meeting. According to Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA)'s sources, the Europeans...

The IMF new assessment for growth in Greece is at 2 percent of gross domestic product, lower than the 2.6 percent forecast six months ago, according to the Fund's latest report. According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the International Monetary...

Cyprus needs to make reforms to cut the number of bad loans in the island's troubled economy, the IMF has said. A post-bailout monitoring team from the IMF was in Cyprus for the second half of March and recently filed...

Greece will likely remain under some kind of foreign supervision despite exiting its bailout program in August it has been claimed. Head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, told a German newspaper that creditors had a "legitimate interest" in monitoring Greece...

Greece needs to complete three important prerequisites before the EU disburses the next loan tranche of €5.7 billion euros, a European official said, according a Kathimerini report. The loan tranche will be disbursed upon the condition that all requirements of...

  The head of the IMF team in Greece, Romanian economist Delia Velculescu, is to leave her post after three years in the job, local media reported on Friday. Velculescu is to be replaced by Peter Dolman, a U.S. official who has...

  A high-profile meeting between Greek premier Alexis Tsipras and IMF head Christine Lagarde has ended in Davos, Switzerland. Lagarde tweeted shortly after Thursday's meeting: "We agreed to work together toward the shared goals of completing reforms and securing debt relief...

Greece is now better equipped to achieve economic growth in the future after the structural reforms it has implemented due to the bailout terms, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, told German broadcaster ARD. "We can...