Euclid Tsakalotos

The government is considering further easing of the capital controls it imposed 32 months ago, Skai Radio reported on Friday.

In cooperation with the Bank of Greece, the Finance Ministry is planning for bank customers to be allowed to withdraw 2,300 euros from each account each month, up from the current ceiling of 1,800 euros.

The government is considering a further easing of the capital controls it imposed 32 months ago, Skai Radio reported on Friday.

The Finance Ministry, in cooperation with the Bank of Greece, is planning for bank clients to be allowed to withdraw 2,300 euros per month per account, up from the current ceiling of 1,800 euros.

The first six months of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government in 2015 didn't just cost Greece 100 billion euros, but "probably twice as much," the former head of the Euro Working Group, Thomas Wieser, told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant in an interview.

Twenty suspected members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) were detained in Athens on Monday night after interrupting an event at which Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was speaking.

On exiting its third international bailout in August, Greece will be an "absolutely sovereign country," European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told a conference on Friday organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur and Kathimerini in Athens.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will meet with European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici in Athens on Thursday at 4.15 p.m., the ministry said.

The meeting will take place behind closed doors, the ministry said, adding that there will be no press briefing after the talks.
 

Greece expects to make a "clean enough break" with its bailout program when it expires in August, according to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos.

Greece expects to make a clean break with official lenders when its international bailout expires in August and has no reason to seek a precautionary credit line, its finance minister said in an interview.

As head of the left-wing SYRIZA-led government, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has become the "worst kind of establishment" since coming into power, the head of opposition New Democracy said on Thursday.

Concerns are increasing about the apparent impunity with which self-styled anarchists and other anti-establishment activists are operating following a fresh spate of incidents on Thursday, one involving the increasingly active Rouvikonas (Rubicon) group.