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Tsipras: We Don't Need Money, We Need Time
An important Eurogroup meeting in Brussels will take place on Monday so that finance ministers could discuss the Greek bailout program.
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Cabinet meeting on Eurogroup developments ends - expectedly - in agreement
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed his optimism on Friday over the outcome of negotiations between the Greek government and the country's international creditors, speaking to his Cabinet on Friday.
During the five-hour meeting, which ended well after midnight, the ministers were briefed on the developments that occurred at the Eurogroup meeting and the EU Summit a day earlier.
Head of Lazard Paris: I have been in constant contact with Tsipras and Varoufakis
In an interview to French magazine "Paris Match," Matthieu Pigasse, the head of investment bank Lazard in Paris, revealed that he has been in constant contact with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ever since the bank was hired to advise the Greek government on its debt restructuring.
EU Summit: Statements about Greece, body language and "oatmeal"
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meetings in Brussels proved encouraging and investors took note with Greece's main stock market closing around 5.5% higher. His meeting with German Chancellor Angela Austerity appeared warm if body language is anything to judge by.
Merkel -Tusk - Junker - Dijssenbloem after EU Summit
Angela Merkel:
-Meeting with PM Tsipras was a highly amiable occasion
- Today's summit meeting hardly entailed Greek matters
- I am more than willing to collaborate with Mr. Tsipras
- Greece's bailout program is still in effect, though it should be prolonged
- I am really looking forward to hearing new suggestions
Tsipras in Brussels as clock ticks on EU bailout
By Alastair Macdonald & Foo Yun Chee
Greece's radical new prime minister Alexis Tsipras was in Brussels on Thursday to lay out his case for more financial help to fellow EU leaders following finance ministers' failure to narrow differences overnight.
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EU puts off Greek rescue battle after Brussels talks stall
By Rebecca Christie, Eleni Chrepa & Arne Delfs
Euro-area governments left tough decisions on the future of Greece's bailout for next week, after talks failed to bridge differences over the aid program that the Greek government blames for economic hardship.
Tsipras gears up for first EU summit
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is on Thursday due to take part in his first European Union leaders? summit, where he is expected to set out his government?s proposals for a bridging agreement with the eurozone a day after Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis did so at the Eurogroup in Brussels.
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'Bankrupt but free,' Greeks express support for government
Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday to support their new anti-austerity government which was locked in tough negotiations with eurozone partners in Brussels.
Satellite demonstrations were expected in Brussels, at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and elsewhere in Europe.
Greece, OECD to draft reform programme to boost growth: Tsipras
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Feb. 11 announced plans to work with the OECD to draft a programme of reforms to boost growth in the debt-laden country, which is hoping to renegotiate its bailout commitments.