Economic and Financial Affairs Council

The newly appointed Acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lyudmila Petkova, has reaffirmed the country's commitment to joining the Eurozone, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and achieving full-fledged Schengen membership.

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis is in Brussels for European Union ministerial meetings. On the sidelines of the sessions, Hatzidakis is to meet European officials. Hatzidakis attended a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday, and on Tuesday he will take part in the ECOFIN Council.

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis presented six proposals for boosting the European Union's competitiveness during an informal ECOFIN Council of Ministers on the topic held in Ghent last week.

"We must adopt the Draghi dogma and do everything that is necessary to boost the European economy's competitiveness," Hatzidakis said during the meeting.

Wolfgang Schaeuble assumed the role of Germany's finance minister in late October 2009, serving in this capacity for a full eight years. During this period, he collaborated, beginning with my own appointment a few weeks earlier, with nine successive Greek finance ministers. This observation alone serves as a clear indication of the impact he had on navigating the eurozone and Greek crises.

The European Union finance ministers reached a compromise agreement for the new Stability and Growth Pact on Wednesday during an Ecofin teleconference, after weeks of arduous consultations on the new reform framework on the pace of debt and deficit reduction by member-states.

Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis is scheduled to travel to Brussels on Wednesday to participate in the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings.

Greece will remain on the road to fiscal stability and "will implement, with determination, the reforms needed to be completed," Finance Minister Costis Hatzidakis said on Friday. 

Greece will remain on the road to fiscal stability and "will implement, with determination, the reforms needed to be completed," Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said on Friday.

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis arrived in Brussels on Thursday to participate in the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings.

Hatzidakis was to present the priorities of the Greek government in the field of economic policy at the Eurogroup meeting on Thursday.

BRUSSELS - Serbia has partly carried out a 2022 policy guidance but has reached a good level of compliance in most statistical areas, according to the Joint Conclusions of the Economic and Financial Dialogue between the EU and the Western Balkans and Turkey (ECOFIN).