Tag Archives: Schaeuble

“You can hear Schaeuble’s voice saying that the profits from Greek bonds he wanted for the German budget,” Yanis Varoufakis revealed in an interview ahead of the controversial release of his secret recordings from the Eurogroup sessions in the first half of 2015. “Don’t you want to hear Schaeuble speaking …

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Former coalition partner of the SYRIZA government has claimed that ex Φinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had agreed with German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on Grexit. “Greece would receive 80 billion euros and leave the eurozone,” Panos Kammenos said on Monday night in an interview with ANT1 TV. “Varoufakis had agreed with …

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Laudatory speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, for Dr Wolfgang Schäuble at the VdZ Publishers’ Night, Berlin, 4 November 2019. The English philosopher John Stuart Mill once observed that “a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to …

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Nine years after Greece surrendered to international creditors and three tough bailout agreements with strict austerity, former German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Financial Times that he was a fierce supporter of Grexit from the very beginning. He also admitted that he wanted to resign when his Grexit plan …

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Famous Greek director Costas Gavras has started his new project: the filming of “Adults in the Room,” the book of former fiance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the fatal first half of 2015, that granted Greece another bailout program. “The history of a country and its people trapped in a power …

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Former finance Minister and now President of the German Parliament, Wolfgang Schaeuble, admitted that he “asked a lot” from Greeks but it was for their own good.of the Greeks when he was finance minister at the peaks of the country’s crisis, but had good reason to do so. “As minister …

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Wolfgang Schaeuble has turned down criticism of being “too harsh on Greece” while he was serving as finance minister of Germany. In contrast he claimed he was criticized that he was too generous. Schaeuble who is President of the German Bundestag was speaking to TV magazine Conflict Zone of German …

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Greek police arrested a 29-year-old man suspected to have sent parcel bombs to former prime minister Lucas Papademos but also to ex German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and the International Monetary Fund. The man was arrested as he was leaving his basement apartment in Attikis square district of Athens at …

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Obsessed to the bone against the Greece’s left-wing government. In his last – and probably first – interview to a Greek television channel, former German Finance Minister Wolfgang “Austerity” Schaeuble poured his poison drop by drop on open wounds and enjoyed for one more time his unerring attitude and his …

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Outgoing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was uncharacteristically positive in his recent comments regarding Greece, saying the country is on a “good path” and that critics’ pessimistic forecasts have not panned out. Schaeuble, who often played the role of the Euro zone’s “bad cop” in dealings with Greece over the …

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German finance minister  Wolfgang Schaeuble left but not without leaving behind a legacy to his successor. In a non-paper, Schaeuble made his proposals on the future integration of the euro zone and the crucial role of the European Stability Mechanism. The ESM should increase its possibilities to support states threatened …

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O M G! Is it true that Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos trolled his ex German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble during the Farewell at the Eurogroup? “Nothing will be quite the same again.” Some like Mehreen Khan of Financial Times, say he did. Here is what Tsakalotos wrote on the European …

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It was the first Eurogroup meeting without Greece being on the agenda and the last Eurogroup meeting for outgoing German finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. End of an era. End of the Schaeuble era. His colleagues paid tribute to the longest serving member. They signed on an European Union flag and …

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The leader of Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), a possible junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s next coalition government, has called for a tougher stance on fiscal and euro zone policy – without so far claiming the finance ministry. Merkel is trying to form a three-way coalition with the FDP …

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Monday evening in Patras. One day after the German elections. Scenarios about the removal of Wolfgang Schaeuble from the finance ministry circulate in full speed. Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks in front of an audience that came at an event organized by the pan-European political movement he had founded, …

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Wolfgang Schaeuble goes to German Bundestag to keep the far-rights under control. The hawkish finance minister of Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly bowed to pressure by senior conservatives of his own party, the Christian-Democrats of CDU, and is leaving the post that crowned him as the absolute ruler and the …

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Greece is closely watching the political developments in Germany as the new coalition government that will be formed will have direct impact on the Greek debt and the discussions about its relief expected to begin after conclusion of the bailout program in August 2018. Right after the exit polls on …

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German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was always against a common European debt, against Eurobonds and new support programs for the European South. He seems to have made a U-turn. As expected not without strict measures and concessions. According to German daily BILD, Schaeuble is working on a proposal that would …

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Yanis Varoufakis keeps up with the good work and his revelations about the crucial negotiations with the European lenders in the first half of 2015. In an interview with Sunday newspaper Proto Thema, the former finance minister revealed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was considering the accept Schaeuble’s plan about …

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Otmar Issing, former Chief Economist and Member of the Board of the European Central Bank and the German Bundesbank, brings back Grexit scenarios, demanding a Euro-sabbatical for Greece. In an interview with business news magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Issing warned of a new flare-up of the euro crisis. “The euro crisis is …

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