Euclid Tsakalotos
Peers hope Tsakalotos turns up in Thursday's Eurogroup
Eurozone finance ministers are hoping their outgoing Greek counterpart, Euclid Tsakalotos, will not skip this Thursday's Eurogroup meeting - like he did last month - so that they get the chance to personally express their objections to the Greek government's policies, as explained in last week's European Commission report.
Greece closer to fully lifting capital controls this year
Greece is on its way to fully lifting remaining restrictions on capital transfers this year, the governor of the country's central bank said on Tuesday.
SYRIZA’s 17 taxes that broke the back of the middle class
An avalalanche of over a dozen new taxes and tax hikes imposed during SYRIZA's four-and-a-half years in power is widely considered the main reason for the disastrous result of the 26 May European Parliament election.
The government's long string of tax hikes was in large measure due to its inability to meet fiscal targets agreed to with creditors.
Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Alexis knows that I know that he knows’
The policies of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance minister at the time, Yanis Varoufakis, resulted in the imposition of capital controls in the summer of 2015. Greece found itself on the brink of default.
Greece scraps bailout commitment to lower tax-free threshold
Greece on Friday scrapped plans to force people to pay more tax on their incomes from next year, less than a month before a parliamentary election.
Tsipras stirs fears of renewed austerity, Mitsotakis runs on tax cuts, security, unity
Editorial: Leaving office, undermining the future
The European Commission rang a resounding alarm bell in its quarterly enhanced fiscal surveillance report on the Greek economy that was released yesterday.
Despite the use of tempered language so as not to appear to intervene in Greece's general election campaign, the Commission's concerns about a prospective fiscal derailment are perfectly clear.
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Tsipras confident of winning snap election
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday urged his SYRIZA party to regroup and heed the message of voters ahead of snap national elections he called after a resounding defeat from opposition conservatives in European Parliament elections.
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Tsipras says EU elections are vote of confidence in government plan
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras indicated on Friday the European elections on May 26 will be a "vote of confidence" in the economic plan and tax breaks presented by the government for 2019 and 2020, noting that "everything is open" if his party suffers defeat in the ballot.
Tsakalotos boasts of ‘first expansive fiscal policy since 2009’
Just three days before crucial European Parliament and local elections, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos offered an accounting of the successes and defeats of the government during his nearly four years as minister even as he expressed concerns about the problems and future of the eurozone.