Greece blocks more EU sanctions, Russia offers Athens aid (New Europe)
ATHENS – Sanctions-hit Russia would consider extending financial aid to debt-ridden Greece if Athens were to make a request, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said. His remarks come after the […]
Oil Slump, Weak Ruble, Ukraine, Make Gazprom Reassess Plans (New Europe)
Hit by falling energy prices, a weaker ruble and a pricing dispute with Ukraine, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said on January 29 that third-quarter net income dropped to 106 billion […]
Tsipras ou la revanche des femmes de ménage (La Tribune de Genève)
«Ils voulaient nous licencier… Eh, bien, c’est nous qui les avons mis au chômage.» Ils, ce sont les ministres sortants. Elles, elles sont toutes là, assises sur leurs chaises en […]
Billionaires From Loeb to Vekselberg Heed Call of Cyprus Banks (Bloomberg News)
(Bloomberg) — Haris Georgiades’s day started with a protest and ended with a party. On the morning of Nov. 20, the finance minister of Cyprus attended a Bank of Cyprus […]
Greece Moves Quickly to Roll Back Austerity (The Wall Street Journal)
ATHENS—Greece’s new government moved quickly to set an agenda that includes launching fresh talks with creditors over the country’s debt burden and rolling back recent overhauls, such as privatizations and […]
Greece’s new young radicals sweep away age of austerity (The Guardian)
One by one they were rolled back, blitzkrieg-style, mercilessly, ruthlessly, with rat-a-tat efficiency. First the barricades came down outside the Greek parliament. Then it was announced that privatisation schemes would […]
Greece halts energy privatisations, cozies up to Russia (New Europe)
ATHENS – The new Greek government will not proceed with any energy privatisations, Greece’s new Production Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, said during a crowded handover ceremony on […]
Azerbaijan, EU step up Southern Gas Corridor efforts (New Europe)
On February 12, the first meeting of the advisory council for the Southern Gas Corridor will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, an important alterative supplier for the EU, the head […]
Des économistes de choc pour gouverner la Grèce (La Tribune de Genève)
A peine deux jours après la victoire éclatante en Grèce de Syriza, parti de la gauche radicale, le nouveau premier ministre Alexis Tsipras dévoilait hier son gouvernement de choc: dix […]
Tsipras Pushes to Power on Promise to Keep Euro and End Greek Austerity (Bloomberg News)
It was in the U.S. where Alexis Tsipras chose to step into Europe’s political mainstream. At a conference at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2013, as Greeks […]