Peter Spiegel

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will reportedly meet with Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund immediately after his arrival in Brussels, where the extraordinary meeting of the Eurogroup takes place this evening.

The international media viewed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras first official speech in Greek Parliament in a negative light on Sunday. Reutors economy Hugo Dixon was one of the first to tweet:

He later wrote on Twitter that these announcements would lead to the country to a Grexit:

Kristalina Georgieva, Bulgaria's EU Commissioner in charge of humanitarian aid, could take over as head of the bloc's foreign policy, the Financial Times wrote Sunday.

By Eleni Varvitsioti

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso spoke to Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos in private in November 2011 and encouraged them to block George Papandreou’s proposal for a referendum on Greece’s euro membership, a Financial Times report claimed on Monday.