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The Economic Times
| 10 months ago
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras won a vote of confidence in his new government, setting the stage for a showdown with the European Union over easing the terms of its bailout. Samaras received 179 votes in support, compared with 121 votes against,...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Greece's deputy labour minister resigned on Monday saying the government was not being aggressive enough in pushing for changes to an unpopular bailout, becoming the third cabinet member to quit the fledgling coalition in as many weeks. Must Read...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
European Union finance ministers will work to secure Spain's teetering economy in meetings in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, with progress expected on the bailout loan for the country's stricken banks and a relaxation of the government's financial...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Spain's borrowing costs rose to dangerously high levels Monday as finance ministers of the 17 countries that use the euro began to gather in Brussels to discuss terms of a rescue package for the country's stricken banks. The interest rate, or yield,...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 10 months ago
European Union finance ministers will work to secure Spain's teetering economy in two meetings in Brussels this week, with progress expected on the bailout loan for the country's stricken banks and a relaxation of the government's financial targets.
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
Greece (AP) A deputy labor minister has resigned from Greece's new coalition government , saying it should have pressed harder to renegotiate the terms of the country's bailout agreements. Nikos Nikolopoulos announced his resignation Monday, hours...
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The Economic Times
| 10 months ago
A European Union official says Spain may be given an extra year to meet its budget deficit target of 3 per cent. The official says finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries will consider the extension to 2014 when they meet Monday evening in...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Greece's new coalition government has won a vote of confidence in parliament, ending months of political uncertainty. It won the approval of all MPs of the three parties backing the coalition, which wants to keep Greece in the euro. Eurozone...
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The Hindu
| 10 months ago
AP Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is congratulated by lawmakers at Parliament after winning a vote of confidence in Athens, Greece, late Sunday. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras survived a confidence vote in parliament late Sunday after...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Greece (AP) — Greece's new three-party coalition government won a vote of confidence in parliament early Monday, ending a period of uncertainty that led to two elections in less than two months, though the country has a long way to go to emerge from...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Euro zone finance chiefs will try to flesh out plans to reinforce the single currency on Monday but their talks in Brussels may do little more than highlight the limitations of last month's deal to help indebted states and banks. Decisions on banking...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Greece's new conservative-led government won parliamentary approval on Monday, but faced the much tougher task of convincing European partners and the IMF to give it more time to meet the terms of its bailout. There had been little doubt the...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 11 months ago
The new three-party coalition government in Greece has won a vote of confidence in parliament early Monday...The 121 voting against the government included deputies of the Radical Left Coalition (Syriza), the nationalist right Independent Greeks, the...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
New Greek Minister of Finance Yannis Stournaras has pledged a staunch program of private investments and privatization to rid his country of the deep financial crisis . "Our privatization program is aiming at attracting significant international...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The government of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faced a confidence vote on Sunday, capping three days of often heated debate over how the country can emerge from crisis and satisfy EU-IMF lenders. Democratic Left. "The goal of the government...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
New Prime Minister Antonis Samaras insisted ahead of a confidence vote Sunday that Greece belongs in the eurozone and will meet the twin challenges of fighting recession while winning the trust of EU-IMF creditors. "The goal of the government is to...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Greece's new finance minister on Saturday pledged to carry out reforms and privatisations demanded under its latest financial rescue in an attempt to regain credibility with international partners stumping up money to keep the country afloat. In his...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Greece needs more time to implement austerity cuts because its recession this year will be deeper than forecast, a Greek coalition leader told its lenders on Saturday, stepping up the country's efforts to win concessions on a bailout package. Faced...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Europe Pedestrians walk through the 'no man's land' in the heart of the divided Cypriot capital Nicosia's Old City in this 2008 photo. In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012 file photo shows Greece's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras looks on...
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Newyork Times
| 11 months ago
But in a speech to Parliament, he also emphasized the need for measures to relieve a public weary of two years of economic austerity. Extreme injustices must be corrected, he said, saying there should be no more wage or pension cuts. We can't have...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
But in a speech to Parliament, he also emphasized the need for measures to relieve a public weary of two years of economic austerity. Extreme injustices must be corrected, he said, saying there should be no more wage or pension cuts. We can't have...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras asked EU-IMF creditors on Friday for more time to meet Greece's 237-billion-euro ($291 billion) bailout commitments. "We ask for the adjustment to be reached not in two years but later," Samaras said in a speech...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Greece will meet targets set by international lenders, but needs more time and wants to renegotiate policies that make its fiscal situation worse by preventing a return to economic growth, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday. In his first...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 11 months ago
Euro zone officials are cautioning against expecting any quick action from the currency bloc's finance ministers when they meet on Monday to sort out the tangle of loose ends and disagreements left by last month's EU debt-crisis summit. Banking...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
The ongoing debt crisis in Europe is in its third year and counting and the euro, the single currency adopted by 17 European nations as their "coin of the realm," has been on a rollercoaster ride versus the U.S. dollar since July 2008.
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Greece (AP) — New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will later Friday outline how his coalition government intends to deal with the country's massive financial crisis, as an inspection of Greece's public finances continues.
Samaras,...
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Independent
| 11 months ago
Friday July 06 2012 THE Greek government has been unable to collect 12.6bn in court-ordered tax fines because it has cut too many staff. The figure amounts to 6.2pc of the debt-stricken country's GDP, Ekathimerini reported, citing data posted on the...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The new Greek government presents on Friday a strategy to salvage its debt rescue programme, win favour with EU-IMF auditors and gain room to renegotiate terms with the EU and IMF. But the state of the economy is grim and the eurozone climate is...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Greece's new finance minister, Yannis Stournaras has admitted that the country is "off-track" to meet the conditions of its bail-out agreements, while his predecessor warned that Athens would need three years to get back on track. Stournaras, who was...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Greece has dropped plans to ask for easier terms for its second bailout, after being warned the plea would be turned down, the country's finance minister said. The country is "off-track" in carrying out structural changes demanded by lenders -- the...
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Independent
| 11 months ago
Athens from bankruptcy, and tried to persuade them to cut the country some slack. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras made the admission after meeting senior officials from Greece's "troika" of lenders from the EU , European Central Bank and...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Greece's new Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras warned Thursday that a recovery plan was "off-track" and "difficult years" laid ahead as sensitive talks with EU-IMF creditors began. Yannis Stournaras spoke just after the first meeting between...
