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GREECE PENSIONERS RECEIVE CONTROVERSIAL CHRISTMAS BONUS PAYMENT
Greek MPs approved the one-off payment, which is for the lowest-earning pensioners - in defiance of the European creditors providing Greece with bailout funding... READ MORE›
GREECE'S EUROPEAN CREDITORS SUSPEND DEBT RELIEF MEASURES
European creditors have pulled a recently announced debt relief package for Greece in protest at subsequent budget spending measures by Athens... READ MORE›
GREEK PM EXPRESSES SHOCK AT REFUGEE DEATHS IN CAMP BLAZE
Alexis Tsipras said Friday he was shocked, as is the entire Greek nation, by the tragic event on Lesbos overnight... READ MORE›
OBAMA URGES DEBT RELIEF FOR GREECE
US President Barack Obama visiting Athens on Tuesday has backed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' call for a restructuring of Greek debt... READ MORE›
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GREEKS REJECT BAILOUT TERMS IN REBUFF TO EUROPEAN LEADERS
Even before the voting was over, some European leaders began trying to contain the potential damage... READ MORE›
CASH WITHDRAWALS AND HOARDING AS DEFAULT LOOMS
For many people in Athens it was time to prepare for an approaching storm... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN LEADERS REACH DEAL ON GREEK DEBT CRISIS
If the deal is a political earthquake for Greece, it also puts the country on course for a major economic shake-up... READ MORE›
BANKS TO STAY SHUT, CAPITAL CONTROLS IMPOSED
Speaking after the European Central Bank ECB said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks Mr Tsipras said Greek deposits were safe... READ MORE›
ALEXIS TSIPRASS REFERENDUM LEAVES GREEK VOTERS PERPLEXED
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who called for the referendum, has veered between bitter confrontation with the country's creditors and conciliatory outreach... READ MORE›
GREECE'S TSIPRAS DEFIANT OVER ECONOMIC PLANS
Greek bailout Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece has said he is sticking to plans to roll back austerity and rejecting an international bailout extension... READ MORE›
GREECE PM MAKES PLEA AT EU SUMMIT
Greece's alexis tsipras urges bold moves at eu summit... READ MORE›
GREEK MPS DEBATE CONTROVERSIAL REFORMS PLAN
Mr Tsipras has asked eurozone and other creditors for EUR53.5bn 59.47bn to cover Greece's debts until 2018... READ MORE›
THERE'S METHOD IN GREECE'S MADNESS - IT COULD PAY OFF
By contrast the Greek leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Friday that he wants to hold a referendum in Greece on the eurozone crisis on July 5... READ MORE›
GREECE WILL NOT DEFAULT - PM TSIPRAS
Greece election New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras says his country will not default on its debts... READ MORE›
TSIPRAS RESIGNS, PAVING WAY FOR SNAP GREEK ELECTION
20 with Tsipras seeking to crush a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal public support for the bailout program Greece's third since 2010 that he negotiated... READ MORE›
GREECE DEBT CRISIS TSIPRAS FACES EUROZONE DEAL BATTLE
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble returned from Brussels to face a tough crowd at home... READ MORE›
IN GREEK REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN A BARRAGE OF DOOMSDAY ADS
Tsipras for a no vote would unleash forces that would see Greece cast out of the European Union altogether, with disastrous results... READ MORE›
SPECIAL REPORT: HOW GREECE WENT BUST
Berlin suspected the EU Commission the executive body running the EU was willing to give too much ground to Greece to hold the euro zone together... READ MORE›
PM TSIPRAS 'FOCUSED ON BAILOUT DEAL'
Greece debt crisis PM Tsipras 'focused on bailout deal'... READ MORE›
GREEK REFERENDUM PLAN BY ALEXIS TSIPRAS TESTS HIS POWER AND CONVICTION
Others argue that the prime minister, like others in Syriza, are actually trying to steer Greece out of the eurozone... READ MORE›
THREE DAYS THAT SAVED THE EURO
For Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, the Schauble ultimatum was an untenable exercise in German humiliation of Greece... READ MORE›
SPECIAL REPORT: THE MAN WHO COST GREECE BILLIONS
By 40, with no experience of national government, he was prime minister, elected on the promise of ending austerity but keeping Greece in the euro zone... READ MORE›
GREEK PRIME MINISTER ALEXIS TSIPRAS CALLS FOR NEW ELECTIONS
Elected in January, Mr. Tsipras took office as an anti-austerity renegade, pledging to win a better debt deal for Greece... READ MORE›
GREEK MPS PREPARE FOR SECOND VOTE ON BAILOUT REFORMS
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rallied his Syriza colleagues on Tuesday saying the Greek people had pinned their hopes on staying in the euro... READ MORE›
ALEXIS TSIPRAS TRANSFORMS HIMSELF AS HE SELLS GREEK BAILOUT TERMS
For the time being, many in Mr. Tsipras's party who are voting against the creditors' demands want him to continue as prime minister without calling elections... READ MORE›
SKEPTICISM CONFUSION OVER AUSTRALIA SUBMARINE TENDER PLEDGE
Greece's creditors -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- want the new government to seek an extension beyond Feb... READ MORE›
BEWILDERED GREEKS LEFT WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO REFERENDUM 'NO' VOTE
Fast forward just a few days however and Alexis Tsipras the prime minister did the unthinkable... READ MORE›
GREECES PARLIAMENT APPROVES PRIME MINISTERS BAILOUT PLAN
Representatives of the main creditors -- the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the other European nations that use the euro -- were poring over the Greek proposal on Friday... READ MORE›
GREECE DEBT CRISIS GREEK PM DEFENDS HARSH DEAL
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he does not believe in a bailout offered by eurozone leaders... READ MORE›
GREEKS RELIEF TURNED TO ANXIETY THEN FRUSTRATION AS TALKS WORE ON
Equally baffling, even for experts, was the political fallout that might be ahead for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whether he gets a deal or not... READ MORE›
A??HOPE BEGINS TODAYA??: THE INSIDE STORY OF SYRIZAA??S RISE TO POWER
On election night, on the top floor of Syriza's HQ, where Tsipras staff sit, nervousness turns to stunned relief as the results come through... READ MORE›
GREEK VOTERS RETURN TSIPRAS TO POWER
With 63 percent of the vote counted Mr. Tsipras's left-wing Syriza party led with 35.4 percent to 28.3 percent for New Democracy the main right-leaning party... READ MORE›
AS GREEK BAILOUT DEAL PASSES TSIPRAS FACES REBELLION
ATHENS -- The Greek Parliament approved an international loan deal early Friday that the government needs to avoid defaulting on a debt payment next week... READ MORE›
YANIS VAROUFAKIS BRANDS ALEXIS TSIPRAS THE A??NEW DE GAULLEA?? AS ELECTION GETS UGLY
Yanis Varoufakis brands Alexis Tsipras the a??new De Gaullea?? as election gets ugly... READ MORE›
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GREECE CLOSE TO NEW BAILOUT DEAL WITH EU
Greece requires a loan of up to 86bn to stay in the Eurozone and prevent a financial crisis... READ MORE›
GREECE AND LENDERS IN FINAL PUSH TO SEAL NEW BAILOUT
Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper reported that the IMF believes Greece needs a bigger bailout worth 90 billion euros... READ MORE›
GREECE LENDERS IN STRETCH RUN TO TO SEAL NEW BAILOUT
Greece and international creditors sought to put final touches on a multi-billion euro bailout accord on Monday to keep the country financially afloat... READ MORE›
GREEK GOVERNMENT SAYS PORING OVER DRAFT OF THIRD BAILOUT AGREEMENT
20 when it faces a debt payment to the European Central Bank... READ MORE›
GREECE'S TSIPRAS SAYS LOAN DEAL WITH LENDERS CLOSE
20, when a 3.5 billion euro debt payment to the European Central Bank falls due... READ MORE›
GREEK MARKET TUMBLES AFTER FIVE-WEEK SHUTDOWN
National Bank of Greece the country's largest commercial bank was down 30 percent the daily volatility limit... READ MORE›
GREEK BANKS READY TO OPEN MONDAY, MERKEL URGES SWIFT BAILOUT TALKS
Gabriel rejected accusations Germany had been too hard on Athens and criticised Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble for suggesting Greece could quit the euro zone temporarily... READ MORE›
GREEK DEBT CRISIS: PRICES FOR EVERYDAY ITEMS SHOOT UP IN GREECE
Transfers of money to other countries are allowed only with permission from the Greek central bank and the finance ministry... READ MORE›
GREEK BANKS TO REOPEN MONDAY BUT CASH RESTRICTIONS REMAIN
ATHENS Greek banks were to reopen Monday after a forced 3-week closure but restrictions on cash withdrawals will remain... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK LIFTS FUNDING FOR GREEK BANKS
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of Greece's sternest critics, questioned whether Athens would ever get a third bailout, even after the parliamentary vote... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK LIFTS FUNDING FOR GREEK BANKS
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of Greece's sternest critics, questioned whether Athens would ever get a third bailout, even after the parliamentary vote... READ MORE›
FROM GERMAN VETERAN, A PLEA FOR UNDERSTANDING FOR GREECE
The former central banker also defended the role of the European Central Bank throughout the euro zone debt crisis... READ MORE›