Pierre Moscovici

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will meet with European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici in Athens on Thursday at 4.15 p.m., the ministry said.

The meeting will take place behind closed doors, the ministry said, adding that there will be no press briefing after the talks.
 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday is to meet European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.

The European Union "will closely monitor" the impact of the United States' tax reform adopted by the Senate at the weekend to assess its impact on the U.S. deficit and on global tax rules, the EU tax commissioner said on Monday, quoted by Reuters. 

Anti-fraud measures are discussed at today's meeting of EU commissioners, sega reported. The main theme will be the so-called black list of tax havens.

The European Commission (EC) on Thursday revised downwards its 2017 growth forecast for Serbia because of the impact of adverse weather conditions.

But the underlying growth trend remains robust, with economic activity expected to pick up already before the end of the year, Tanjug reported, citing EC's fall economic forecast.

The eurozone must seize a current window of opportunity for urgent reforms to the currency bloc, including by creating a joint finance minister answering to the European Parliament, European economic and financial affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.

The euro zone must seize a current window of opportunity for urgent reforms to the currency bloc, including by creating a joint finance minister answering to the European Parliament, European economic and financial affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.

Shortly before the start of the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg, President Jeroen Dijsselbloem called on Greece to implement all the prior actions in order for the 3rd review to be completed.

European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici said Greece would remain under fiscal supervision even after the current bailout programme expires based EU regulations until the government pays off at least 75% of its financial support it had received from either other EU member-states, the ESM and the EFSM.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed Greece's bond sale on Tuesday, the first in three years, as a landmark on its way to exiting the crisis and its international bailouts on Tuesday.