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Just hours before the meeting between Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis with his counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin, and the German side most probably thought to put the agenda of Thursday talks. In a document leaked to the press, Berlin made its positions towards Greece very clear and demands from …

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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will meet with European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi and and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. The Greek FinMin announced his upcoming appointments in Germany speaking to reporters while in Rome today, Athens News Agency reports. State NERIT TV reported …

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Let’s put two things clear right away: Greece’s SYRIZA-led coalition government insists on debt-restructuring,  negotiations with the country’s creditors and a “new European deal” in general. In contrast, Greece’ creditors, mainly the European Union with the lead of Germany warn the Greek government that it should forget debt-restructuring and it …

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The eurozone has ruled out debt forgiveness for Greece and warned Alexis Tsipras that his anti-austerity coalition government must honor all past agreements with international creditors. In a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Monday, a day after left-wing SYRIZA won the parliamentary elections, the euro bosses warned …

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As all finance ministers of Euro zone gathered in Brussels for a eurogroup meeting that Greece considers as ‘crucial’, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble took advantage of the opportunity to trim the wings of the government urging for a rash bailout exit. The German FinMin warned that the release of …

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Greece’s lenders seem in general satisfied with the outcome of the multi-bill voting on Sunday night. The impact of voting to Greeks’ EU partners was immense. For example, one of the fierce critics of debt-ridden Greece, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble immediately declared, he felt …relaxed. German Finance Minister Wolfgang …

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“We found a priest, let’s bury five to six.” That’s a Greek expression pointing to chances that shouldn’t be missed. Like in case of idiots, who are willing to take one bailout after the other. The Greek government. And the Troika willing to load Greeks with loads of loans that …

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble left Athens on Thursday after an intense visit: three interviews, five appointments, one conference, one working lunch. All these in just height hours. He came, saw and conquered. No the hearts of the citizens of besieged Greece but the hearts of the German taxpayers and …

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“Greece must stop lobbying for a second restructuring of its debt,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned on Thursday, saying that “this was not in the country’s best interests.”. Speaking at an event organized by the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce in Athens Hilton, Scaheuble advised Greeks “My advice is not …

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Whoops! German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble apparently arrived very hungry in Athens. Most possibly because he is a hard-working and industrious German who wakes up early in the morning and eats his breakfast before he leaves home for office or other important meeting. An early breakfast craves for an early …

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Schaeuble comes, Greeks go… Αthenians are going to be in real trouble tomorrow due to the visit of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Not only the city center will be cordoned and public gatherings are banned by the police, public transport means will not be able to operate as usual …

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A devil’s week begins today for the Greek bipartisan coalition government, with the public sector in uproar, municipalities up in arms, the controversial multi-bill in the Parliament, a voting to prosecute former finance minister Papaconstantinou … Mayors have shut down the municipalities in protest and threaten with mass resignations if …

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble will visit Athens on July 18th 2013 and will meet with his Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Speaking at the German Parliament, Schaeuble said that on the agenda of the talks will be “bilateral issues with emphasis in combating youth unemployment in …

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble expressed the wish to visit Athens. The wish was expressed during a phone conversation with his Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras on Monday. Greek media report that the German FinMin also told Stournaras that Greece has to continue with the reforms. Shcaueble said that Athens has …

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Germany will help the broke countries of the euro zone South: Spain, Portugal and Greece. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble plans that German state Development Bank KfW will give loans of  low interest rates to small and medium enterprises in Portugal and Spain, and most likely also in Greece. According to …

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We all remember German finance minister Woflgang Schaeuble claiming that Cyprus was not systemically relevant for the euro zone. His slogan was more or less that the collapse of Cyrpus’s banking sector would not affect the eurozone as the impact could not be systemically. Today, Wolfgang Schaueble claimed exactly the opposite: that …

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That’s an interesting public opinion survey result that will increase pressure for the Greek government to carry on with the WWII demands from Germany. Eight in ten Greeks believe, the government should pursue Germany over the reparations for damages during the 2. World War. Even if some compensation was given …

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German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rejected any prospect of Berlin paying WWII reparations to Greece. Speaking to “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung“,  Schaeuble argued “that was done long time ago” but refrained from giving exact documentation of his arguments – for a change. Furthermore Schaeuble warned Athens saying the issue of allegedly …

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“The Cyprus deal is a ‘fair’ agreement that lies on the German position,” finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said during a press conference in Berlin on Monday, after returning from Brussels. “Europe is in solidarity, Europe remains in solidarity. But you have to remove the causes that lead to such a crisis. …

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Every European who respects himself feels obliged to criticise the financial model of Cyprus and just a couple of hours ahead the crucial eurogroup meeting that might send the country into default, And just a couple of years after these esteem EU partners had accepted Cyprus as member of the …

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