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Managing Director of International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde was surprised to find Yanis Varoufakis hiding in a bush next to other Easter Eggs. The Greek Finance Minister had asked her for an urgent meeting on this Easter Sunday to talk “negotiations” and “reforms” as time and cash are running up …

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Applaud! Excellent Idea! Former ruling and coalition government partner, Socialist PASOK proposes that all responsible for the two Memorandum of Understanding (Loan Agreements) and the Greek Bond swap (PSI) should testify in front of the parliamentary committee investigating the conditions and implementations of the agreements with the lenders. In a …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a phone conversation with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Wendesday. Tsipras and Lagarde talked about the Eurogroup agreement of February 20th, the reforms list as well as tax revenues and tax evasion. Largarde reportedly told Tsipras that the so-called Lagared-List was not properly used …

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Two of Greece’s main lenders, managing director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, and President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, raised some objections and reservations to Greek Reforms List. Similar concerns were expressed by the 18 finance Ministers at the Eurogroup teleconference on Tuesday afternoon. “We call on …

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Another oracle speaks gibberish just a couple of days before the elections and leaves it to the economic priests to interpret the enigmatic prophecy. An exit by Greece from the euro area would be devastating for the country, the head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday. …

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The head of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, should resign over her her claims of ‘death threats from Greek taxpayers’. Speaking to private Mega TV on Thursday morning, Deputy Minister of Development Gerasimos Giakoumatos said: “Christine Lagarde should resign because she cannot put a whole country on investigation mood to …

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Oh God! Remember the claims made by IMF’s head Christine Lagarde that she had received “death threats” by Greeks when she had talked about tax evasion and that she had increased her security personnel? It turns out it was all … a – excuse my language – bullshit. The Greek …

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Long time not seen and heard! Christine Lagarde, chief of International Monetary Fund. However on the historic occasion of the oversubscribed Greek bond and Greece’s return to the international borrowers, Madame Lagarde made a statement. “Greece is heading in the right direction,” Lagarde said without much enthusiasm and reminded cheering …

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The Eurogroup meets up on Monday in Brussels with Eurozone finance ministers expected to review individual bailout programs of Eurozone member countries. Greece will also be discussed even as its government is reportedly considering a proposal for a debt turnover Greek finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras will brief his counterparts about …

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Greeks may do bad in economics but they do great in sex! However, they don’t do as good as the Croatians who top the list of the global survey conducted by the magazine “Men’s Health”. And here I have to admit that I finally understand what IMF-Head Christine Lagarde said …

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With the Troika representatives back in Athens, Greece reportedly gives a battle to achieve the lowering of Value Added Tax in catering services and goods from  currently 23% down to 13%. So far the signals from the country’s main lender International Monetary Fund are not promising. Christine Lagarde was clear …

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All key players are here: Vladimir Putin, Christine Lagarde, Jose Barroso… A dominant Angela Merkel saying an angry word to Gerard Depardieu – the famous actor who left France to avoid taxes. But ops! Antonis Samaras is also there, bending behind the German Chancellor dressed in modest pre-French-revolutionary uniform. Russian political …

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 These are touching moments among eurozone finance ministers. According to UK daily the Guardian, Christine Lagarde sent an sms to her Greek counterpart George Papaconstantinou in summer 2011 – short after he was replaced from the post of Finance Minister. “We miss you!” Lagarde apparently wrote to the Greek finance minister who …

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Two versions of infamous Lagarde-list will reportedly find their way to the Greek parliament tomorrow or upcoming Monday. Economic prosecutors travelled to Paris on December 21st and returned to Athens with a copy of the original list with the names of Greeks suspected of tax evasion.  France had originally handed over the …

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Eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund will meet today, Monday to seek a solution to Greek bailout tranche of at least 31.5 billion euro. However substantial disagreement between IMF and Berlin has hindered so far the disbursement of the tranche. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and IMF-Head Christine Lagarde …

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Friday it is important that a crucial Eurogroup meeting next week on Greece forges a deal that will put the insolvent country΄s economy on sustainable path — though differences remain over how to achieve this. She also said European policymakers must …

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday she expected a “real fix” for Greece that included debt sustainability, rather than a “quick fix”.Speaking during a visit to Malaysia, Lagarde said that all of Greece΄s partners shared the same goal of putting the country΄s recovery programme back on …

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Members of the parliamentary committee investigating the whereabouts of  Lagarde’s list with the names of 1,991 Tax evaders could not believe their ears.  Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, who got the list by Lagarde in October 2011, told them on Wednesday morning: “The original file [the list] and the accompanying letter …

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“There are good developments in Greece,” IMF head Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, stressing that the government has come very close to reach primary surplus and that it records progress in competitiveness. Asked by a Bloomberg report why the Greek program fails, Lagarde replied that it is too early to …

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I would like to kindly ask KTG-readers to search among all the items laying on their office desk – drawers included. Greek government is seeking at least one USB stick containing the names of almost 2,000 Greeks with large deposits in HSBC, Geneva, Switzerland. The case is taking a tragicomic …

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