Panos Skourletis

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Greece’s finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, said he expects to open negotiations on debt relief by the end of the year. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
Debt relief next big issue as Syriza shifts positions

Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos will meet his euro zone counterparts next Monday for the first time since his country’s September 20th genera(...)

New bailout measures include further pension cuts, more value-added tax increases and a “solidarity” tax on incomes. Photograph: EPA
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras resigns and calls early election
  • Europe
  • August 20, 2015, 14:57

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is resigning and calling an early election. Mr Tsipras’s departure will pave the way for early (...)

Newly appointed Greek energy minister Panos Skourletis says Greece will look to alternatives to privatising its power grid. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Greece to seek alternatives to privatising power grid - minister

Greece will look to alternatives to privatising its power grid operator ADMIE as part of a new bailout deal with its lenders, Energy Minister Panos Sk(...)

Greek former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that Greece was subject to a programme that will “go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever”. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
Greece economic reforms will fail, says Yanis Varoufakis

Economic reforms imposed on Greece by creditors are going to fail, according to the country’s outspoken former finance minister. Yanis Varoufakis told(...)

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras leaving Maximos Mansion in Athens on Friday. He left his main economic ministries unchanged in the reshuffle. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
Tsipras sacks party rebels in Greek cabinet reshuffle

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras sacked left-wing energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and two deputy ministers on Friday as he reshuffled his cabi(...)

Pensioners are given priority tickets as they wait to receive part of their pensions in Athens, Greece yesterday. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
Syriza party members describe new deal as ‘humiliating’

A far-left faction in Greece’s ruling Syriza party denounced the bailout deal as a “humiliation” as the leadership fought to contain a ripple of defe(...)

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras talks to the press at the end of the Eurozone leader summit on the Greek crisis on Monday. Photograph: EPA.
Tsipras struggles as Syriza members say ‘this deal is not us’

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a struggle to keep his majority in parliament after a number of government figures distanced themselves (...)

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi. Photograph: Francois Lenoir
Greece urges international creditors to be realistic

Greece has said it had sent a comprehensive reform proposal to its international creditors, urging them to be realistic and accept the plan to clinch (...)

An anarchy symbol spray-painted over the logo of Bank of Greece in Athens. Most top credit rating agencies say they would not cut Greece’s rating to default if it misses a payment to the IMF or ECB. Photograph: Reuters
Greek deputy PM set for talks with ECB president

Greek deputy prime minister Yannis Dragasakis will meet European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in Frankfurt today as Greece ramps up its efforts(...)

Greek finance minister Yianis Varoufakis is ready for an ‘honest solution’ to Greece’s economic ills Photograph: AFP/Getty
Greece signals concessions in crunch talks with lenders

Greece’s leftist government offered its biggest concessions so far in a race to remove roadblocks in crunch talks with lenders on a cash-for-reforms p(...)

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