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Archive - 2015

March 7th

Creditors defined Yannis Varoufakis’ proposals as laughable

07 March 2015 / 17:03:04  
The finance minister suggested that ‘undercover agents’, equipped with recording devices, detect cases of tax evasion; experts believe this measure is inapplicable in Greece because it creates a risk of arbitrariness and corruption


March 6th

Passions, hatred and agreements in New Democracy

06 March 2015 / 19:03:33  
New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras and his opponents within the party have scheduled another meeting, this time during the session of the political party committee which will take place on Sunday.


Tsipras threatens to issue bonds without permission from Draghi

06 March 2015 / 18:03:33  
His reaction is in response to yesterday's decision of the ECB Governing Council, which rejected the request of Athens to increase the limit on the issuance of government bonds.


The National Bank of Greece has a new CEO

06 March 2015 / 16:03:16  
Leonidas Fragkiadakis holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Cambridge University and a master's degree from the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Greece hardens its position after statements by Mario Draghi

06 March 2015 / 15:03:47  
As the European Central Bank cut the hopes that it could allow Greece to issue new government bonds in order to secure funding for the coming weeks, now all expectations are focused on the Eurogroup meeting on Monday.


March 5th

Mario Draghi wants an agreement and reforms to continue the funding of Greece

05 March 2015 / 19:03:44  
The ECB's quantitative easing (QE) programme will provide the euro zone member states with liquidity to the amount of 1.1 trillion euro. Greece, however, will not obtain anything until it comes to an agreement with its lenders.


#Grexident

05 March 2015 / 17:03:29  
The terms has appeared over the past three weeks on various economic websites and on Twitter. It is a combination of "Grexit" and "incident" and is a short expression for "Greece’s exit from the euro zone because of an incident".