Greek government-debt crisis
Europe stocks little changed as investors await Greek debt talks
European stocks were little changed before a meeting between Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his euro-area counterparts in Brussels.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index dropped 0.1 percent to 372.56 at 8:07 a.m. in London. Stocks climbed Tuesday amid investor optimism that Greece can reach an agreement on new bailout terms with its euro-region creditors.
Tsipras Gets Green Light On Forming New Greek Government
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras won the confidence vote in Greek parliament on Tuesday. He is to form a government consisting of his left-wing party SYRIZA and coalition partner, the righ-wing conservatives from ANEL.
Greece's new government wins confidence vote in parliament
Greece's SYRIZA-led government has won a confidence vote in Parliament, ahead of high-stakes talks in Brussels with bailout creditors.
Lawmakers voted 162-137 for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' government, elected on January 25 on a platform pledging to radically overhaul austerity in the financially struggling country.
Tsipras: Greece 'cannot return to age of bailouts, submission'
Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras said Tuesday that the country "cannot return to an age of bailouts and suppression," ahead of critical talks with Athens's EU creditors.
"There is no return," he said in a speech to parliament the day before Greece presents a proposal for a new reform deal at an extraordinary meeting of eurozone foreign ministers in Brussels. [AFP]
New Greek govt given vote of confidence — Now comes the hard part
Greece’s Parliament provided a widely expected vote of confidence to the leftist-dominated SYRIZA coalition government early Wednesday morning, hours before a crucial Eurogroup meeting is expected to signal whether eurozone lenders will grant the recession-plagued country a credit line — until the summer — without austerity-mandated strings attached.
Tsipras: There’s no backtracking to era of Memorandums
“We face a critical milestone”.
“There is no way back. There is no backtracking to Memorandums”, said the Greek Prime Minister in Parliament, completing the round of addresses before asking MPs to give a vote of confidence.
Former PM Samaras: We won’t let you lead us to a head-on collision
Not long before the “vote of confidence” process began in Parliament, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras addressed SYRIZA, charging that “We won’t let you lead us into a head-on collision”.
He continued by stressing that “Whoever loves one’s country wishes the new government to succeed, but we love Greece and we won’t compromise our European future”.
Kotzias rebuffed in Berlin over WWII reparations
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias repeated the new Greek government?s claim for war reparations from Germany Tuesday during a joint news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin.
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Varoufakis doesn't rule out rift as Schaeuble warns time running out
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis did not rule out clashing with his eurozone counterparts at Tuesday?s Eurogroup meeting in Brussels as Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that Greece would be offered no other deal than the extension of its existing bailout.
GPO poll: Positive feedback on policy statements up to 79.2%
Roughly eight out of ten (79.2%) respondents expressed a positive opinion vis-a-vis the policy statements announced by the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday. The poll was conducted by GPO on behalf of private MEGA channel. On the other hand 17.9% of respondents expressed a negative opinion.