Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday that a funding agreement struck with euro zone ministers canceled austerity commitments made by a previous conservative-led government to international creditors. After often ill-tempered negotiations, Greece secured late on Friday a four-month extension to euro zone funding, which will avert bankruptcy and a euro exit, provided it comes up ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Greece Faces Tight Deadline to Develop Reform Proposals
Greek government racing against tight deadline to submit reform proposals to creditors
Pressure on Greece to deliver plan
The Greek government begins work on a list of reforms it has agreed to submit to lenders by Monday, as part of a deal to extend its bailout package.
Greek Obtains Provisional Bailout Deal Ahead of Review
Talks in Brussels between officials from the 19 euro-area countries concluded late Friday with an agreement to extend bailout funds to Greece for four months. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government must submit a list of economic measures it will undertake on Monday. Neither the Greek economy nor the Greek government were strangled,” government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said in live ...
Greek premier: difficulties lie ahead on bailout
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras hailed the "important success" of Greece's negotiations and what he called "the end of austerity and the bailout" but warned Greeks that difficult ...
Greek debt deal: Government starts work on reform list
The Greek government is beginning work on a list of reforms it has agreed to submit to foreign lenders by Monday. The reforms must satisfy the rest of the eurozone and the IMF in order for Greece to qualify for a four-month extension on its financial ...
Capital controls — how Greece could stay in the Eurozone even without a deal
As negotiations between Greece and other Eurozone member states — most of all Germany — continue, there's growing speculation that Greece will ...