Panos Skourletis
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Debt relief next big issue as Syriza shifts positions
- Europe
- October 1, 2015, 01:00
Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos will meet his euro zone counterparts next Monday for the first time since his country’s September 20th genera(...)

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 (...)

Greece to seek alternatives to privatising power grid - minister
- Europe
- July 25, 2015, 12:58
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(...)

Greece economic reforms will fail, says Yanis Varoufakis
- Europe
- July 19, 2015, 09:34
Economic reforms imposed on Greece by creditors are going to fail, according to the country’s outspoken former finance minister. Yanis Varoufakis told(...)

Tsipras sacks party rebels in Greek cabinet reshuffle
- Europe
- July 17, 2015, 21:51
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras sacked left-wing energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and two deputy ministers on Friday as he reshuffled his cabi(...)

Syriza party members describe new deal as ‘humiliating’
- Europe
- July 14, 2015, 01:01
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(...)

Tsipras struggles as Syriza members say ‘this deal is not us’
- Europe
- July 13, 2015, 12:10
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a struggle to keep his majority in parliament after a number of government figures distanced themselves (...)

Greece urges international creditors to be realistic
- Economy
- June 2, 2015, 08:22
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 (...)

Greek deputy PM set for talks with ECB president
- Economy
- May 5, 2015, 01:00
Greek deputy prime minister Yannis Dragasakis will meet European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in Frankfurt today as Greece ramps up its efforts(...)

Greece signals concessions in crunch talks with lenders
- Economy
- April 30, 2015, 12:08
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(...)