Finance minister

Global business leaders will discuss world economy risks and their expectations from G-20 countries in a series of meetings in the capital city of Ankara on Sept. 3-5. 

The European Commission categorically denied former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varroufakis’s claims that Greece’s General Secretary for Public Revenue, Katerina Savvaidou was under the control of the Commission.

The Finance Ministry has revealed Turkey’s 100 'tax champions' for 2014, with members of the Tara family and the Koç family topping the list. Here is the top 50

Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic and Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic conferred with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.

Dacic and Novak are the co-chairmen of the joint committee for cooperation between Serbia and Russia.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble might meet Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in Berlin on Tuesday after receiving a request for a meeting from his Greek counterpart, Schaeuble's spokesman Martin Jaeger said on Friday.

Members of a special committee at the Finance Ministry?s General Accounting Office told the parliamentary inquiry into Germany?s unpaid reparations to Greece that Athens is owed between 280 and 340 billion euros by Berlin.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sought to play down Friday assertions by Athens that Greece is on the verge of reaching a deal with its creditors.

"The positive reports out of Athens don't fully reflect the state of talks," Schaeuble said at the close of a meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors in Dresden.

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Like everybody else, I was astonished when the finance minister commented on the armored Mercedes allocated to the head of the Religious Affairs Directorate by saying, ?The money spent on vehicles for public institutions is 3.3 billion Turkish Liras, peanuts in Turkey?s budget.?

Luxury cars allocated for public officials draw the reaction of the people everywhere in the world. 

Greece crashing out of the euro, or ?Grexit,? doesn?t pose a short-term risk to the shared European currency but a medium-term one as it demonstrates that the union is not permanent, Italy?s finance minister said on Friday.

Although the history of finance inspection and examination bodies within the state apparatus can be traced back to the early days of the Ottoman Empire, the emergence of a modern, professional and self-supporting bureaucratic unit tasked to oversee virtually all revenues, properties and expenses of the vast Ottoman lands came in the last quarter of the 19th century.