Euclid Tsakalotos

By Maria Petrakis

"A Day with Yanis Varoufakis," a satirical post doing the rounds on social media, shows the Greek finance minister spending his waking hours feted by adoring fans. He goes to sleep and is jolted awake by a nightmare of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble cackling.

A climate of support for the government handling of Greece's debt situation was prevalent during Wednesday's 12-hour cabinet meeting of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA). This was confirmed late into the evening when the majority of deputies approved the agreement that Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had made with Eurogroup.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke before his party’s parliamentary group and proceeded with a complete retelling of everything the government has done from the day it was elected, until the deal with the Eurogroup.

According to government sources, the PM spoke of the difficult negotiations and underlined “the government’s achievements so far”, as such:

 Image aside, the gov?t will have a mountain to climb in order to meet its fiscal and political targets

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

By George Georgiopoulos

Greece's government prepared reform measures on Sunday to secure a financial lifeline from the euro zone, but was attacked for selling «illusions» to voters after failing to keep a promise to extract the country from its international bailout.

Jonathan Stearns & Rebecca Christie

Euro-area finance ministers reached a provisional deal intended to keep aid flowing to Greece in return for a commitment to budget targets, buying time to work out the detail of longer-term Greek financing.

By Jan Strupczewski and George Georgiopoulos

European Union paymaster Germany softened its tone on Friday as euro zone finance ministers raced to break a deadlock over Athens' debts.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday evening after a day of tense efforts aimed at securing a compromise between Greece and the eurozone ahead of a Eurogroup summit Friday where Greece?s proposal for extending its loan agreement with creditors is expected to be discussed.

European ministers raised the pressure on Greece to accept a last-minute debt deal on Tuesday as the radical leftist government in Athens remained defiant refusing ?blackmail? from Brussels.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis turned down on Monday evening an offer to have his country's bailout extended made at a Eurogroup meeting.

Varoufakis called called the conditions proposed by EU partners "vague", but added afterwards he was ready to do "anything" to have an agreement in place.