Greece

Representatives of the government and the country?s international creditors are to start ?technical level? talks in Brussels on Wednesday following an agreement thrashed out in Brussels on Monday by eurozone finance ministers, though it remained unclear when, or if, foreign auditors would visit Athens for talks.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Tuesday issued a terse response to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, which over the weekend accused him of showing ?a provocative attitude? toward Ankara.

Austria's interior minister on Tuesday sharply criticized recent statements by at least a couple of top Greek government officials who dangled an "idea" of issuing illegal migrants ? ones having entered in Greece ? with travel documents to travel to western Europe.

Yanis Varoufakis insists that German FinMin Wolfgang Schaeuble has never lashed out at him during various get-togethers or in Eurogroup meetings, but the latter found a way to slightly … dispute this.

Less than 50 of Parliament?s 300 deputies refused the privilege of a complimentary car that they are entitled to as elected MPs but which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had exhorted them to reject during his presentation of the government?s policy program.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble insisted Tuesday that urgent technical talks on extending Greeces bailout would involve the "troika" of creditors, despite claims by Athens that the much-loathed group would play no part.

The negotiations between the Greek side and the country's creditors that begun yesterday in Brussels were once again interrupted by the sudden departure of Greek finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.

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European finance ministers piled pressure on Greece to open its books and follow through with pledges agreed to in its rescue package, as the country tries to avoid running out of cash as soon as this month.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' statements in a documentary about the Greek debt that was aired in Germany yesterday, on the same day the Eurozone Finance Ministers met to discuss whether to provide Greece with further aid, have caused a strong negative reaction by the German media.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday no aid would be handed to Greece until international lenders had agreed that it had delivered on its reform commitments.

"Greece must talk to the institutions to ensure that the Memorandum of Understanding is fulfilled," Schaeuble told reporters in Brussels after a meeting of European finance ministers.