Greek officials are publicly pointing to limited progress in talks with the “Brussels Group” over the weekend in basically three major areas: adjustment of the VAT rates; administrative consolidation of

We would caution against getting overly worked up over leaks in Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung of an interim deal being prepared for Greece to provide an extension through the fall of

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker today denied reports he had intervened in negotiations with Athens with a compromise outline proposal to break the impasse between Athens and the Eurogroup. That

Three points stand out in the run-up to the critical Eurogroup meeting this coming Monday over the fate of the Greek bail-out program. *** First, while there will probably be

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last night expressed hopes for striking a deal with the EU by May 9, just before the May 11 Eurogroup meeting in Brussels and a

The single most important new development on Greece over the weekend was not in the bitterly harsh, acrimonious tone of the “discussions” at the Eurogroup meeting in Riga on Friday

Greek markets sold off today on reports of European Central Bank contingency planning over the treatment of Greek bank collateral in case of alternative scenario cases for an orderly, or

Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble yesterday lashed out at the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras for wasting precious time, raising questions over its willingness if not capacity to put any

In a report last Wednesday we warned that EU officials were quietly preparing for the possibility that Greece might be unable to meet its 450 million Euro debt obligation to

Wire services may have generated some confusion this morning in running with a headline reporting Germany’s Finance Ministry spokesperson Martin Jaeger assured Greece the 1.2 billion euros it has requested

If yesterday’s high profile, cool but cordial, summit between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was intended to dial down recent heated exchanges between Athens and

Negotiations between the EU and Greece over the weekend that led to a four-month extension of the Troika bailout program, now called “Arrangements with the European Institutions,” were marred by

** The proposal sent today by Athens to the Eurogroup – through the preliminary scrutiny of the deputies – addresses some of the semantic issues in getting to a short

** The fact that the Greek team has today leaked to the press the entire minutes/memorandum of its earlier proposal to the Eurogroup is not a positive signal for how

A few hours ago Greek Finance officials stormed away from debt and budget negotiation discussions with their EU counterparts, with an official anonymously vowing Greece would never concede to the

For all the tough rhetoric from Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras, the broad outlines for a potential compromise deal with the EU to renegotiate Greece’s bailout program had already been

Over the last few weeks it was becoming increasingly clear the efforts by Alexis Tsipras to portray his far- left Syriza party as a reasonable partner to the Eurozone had

As Greece moves closer to its historic national election on January 25, the lead in the polls held by the radical-left Syriza party headed by Alexis Tsipras over incumbent center-right

The Greek parliament will conduct a second round of voting tomorrow to approve Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ nominee for President, Stavros Dimas, after the failure as expected to elect him

Greek markets plunged yesterday on the announcement that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had decided to move the date for the parliamentary votes for a new President to replace the outgoing