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No breakthrough on Greek bailout talks
EU creditors fell short of an agreement with the Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on budgetary expectations for Greece, once its €86 billion bailout program ends in 2018. Both parties said they...
View ArticleDijsselbloem not fit to be Eurogroup president, says Pittella
Jeroen Dijsselbloem is “not fit to be president of the Eurogroup,” Socialist MEP leader Gianni Pittella said Tuesday, accusing the Dutch finance minister of making “discriminatory comments” about...
View ArticleCalls for Dijsselbloem to quit Eurogroup over ‘stupid jokes’
Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa and Italy’s former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi have added their voices to calls for Jeroen Dijsselbloem to resign as head of the Eurogroup because his comments...
View ArticleDijsselbloem’s Parliament boycott inflames tensions
MEPs were not amused Tuesday when Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, no-showed a European Parliament debate on the Greek bailout. European Parliament President...
View ArticleDijsselbloem can speak to MEPs — ‘in late afternoon’
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, on Wednesday told MEPs he is available to discuss progress on Greek bailout talks later this month. The Dutchman caused outrage...
View ArticleDijsselbloem and Eurogroup colleagues ‘end’ offensive comment episode
VALLETTA, Malta — Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem tried to make amends today for comments that caused an uproar among southern European leaders by expressing his “regret” to eurozone finance...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in The Economist, U.K., April 6, 2017 | By Kal First published on POLITICO.eu, Belgium, April 7, 2017 | By Rytis Daukantas First published on Caglecartoons.com, The Netherlands,...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: Death threats — By the numbers — Britney in...
DOZENS OF MEPS RECEIVE DEATH THREATS: In the first 12 days of his term as U.S. president, Donald Trump received more than 12,000 death threats. Compared to that figure, most — though not all — members...
View ArticleJeroen Dijsselbloem: ‘It feels like I committed a war crime’
Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem was made to feel like he had “committed a war crime” after his comments about southern European countries spending money on “liquor and women” led to calls for...
View ArticleEU creditors play down chances of Greek bailout deal
Eurozone finance ministers remained cautious over an agreement on debt relief measures for Greece as they arrived in Brussels for talks on the country’s €86 billion bailout program. “I am working on a...
View ArticleGreek bailout talks end with no deal
Greece’s EU creditors have once again failed to reach an accord over the amount of debt relief the Hellenic state should get, once the country’s €86 billion bailout program ends in mid-2018. Monday’s...
View ArticleNo Greek deal is no big deal because it’s close, EU creditors say
The Greek bailout talks once again ended without a conclusive agreement, but eurozone finance ministers shrugged it off, saying they are confident of a deal at their next meeting June 15. The almost...
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Eurogroup confronts own deficit: governance
For the past seven-plus years, as Greece’s debt crisis plays out in public in painful, blow-by-blow detail, the European body charged with its rescue has conducted its affairs away from prying eyes....
View ArticleDijsselbloem confirms he won’t join new Dutch government
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, outgoing Dutch finance minister, has said he wouldn’t participate in a “right-wing” government, putting into doubt his position as the president of the Eurogroup, the informal...
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Brussels’ radical eurozone shake-up plan
The way in which the eurozone is governed would be radically altered if plans unveiled by the European Commission on Wednesday come to fruition. Under the proposals, the EU’s informal gathering of...
View ArticleAlexis Tsipras: ‘Full of hope’ ahead of Eurogroup meeting
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed his confidence in reaching a deal that would unblock new loans, ahead of a Eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Thursday. “We’re looking...
View ArticleFinance ministers optimistic on Greek bailout deal
LUXEMBOURG — Greece is likely to get the next round of bailout cash that it needs to cover impending debt payments in July that amount to €7.4 billion. Further debt relief measures tied to the...
View ArticleGreece gets more money, Europe hopes for better days
LUXEMBOURG — In the end, the Greeks got what they wanted: €8.5 billion. But that was only half of what was on their wish list. On Thursday evening, eurozone finance ministers hammered out a deal that...
View ArticleThe other job opening at the Eurogroup
The eurozone’s laboratory for sovereign bailouts will lose its chief economic expert when Thomas Wieser retires in six months, sparking a fresh scramble among EU governments for influence inside the...
View ArticleTop issues in financial services policy this fall
ECB stimulus tapering: The European Central Bank is expected to head for the exit from crisis measures, more than five years after President Mario Draghi promised to do “whatever it takes” to save the...
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