Euclid Tsakalotos

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.

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

'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.

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