Showing posts with label Eurogroup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eurogroup. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

22/5/17: Eurogroup and Greece: Wrestling Defeat from the Claws of Victory

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Today's Eurogroup meeting on Greece ended in no agreement and extends the current tranche negotiations into June 15, the date of the n...
Friday, January 27, 2017

27/1/17: Eurogroup has ignored Brexit risks to Ireland

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My article for the  Sunday Business Post  on the latest Eurogroup meeting:   https://www.businesspost.ie/opinion/constantin-gurdgiev-eurog...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

25/5/16: IMF's Epic Flip Flopping on Greece

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IMF published the full Transcript of a Conference Call on Greece from Wednesday, May 25, 2016 (see: http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2016...

24/5/16: Greek Crisis: Old Can, Old Foot, New Flight

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So Eurogroup has hammered out yet another 'breakthrough deal' with Greece, not even 12 months  after the previous 'breakthroug...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

11/5/16: 7+1 Steps Guide to Greek Crisis Madness

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Greece is back in the news recently with yet another round of crisis talks and measures. Here's where we stand on the matter. After ...
Friday, August 14, 2015

14/8/15: IMF on Two Unfinished Bits of Greek Bailout 3.0

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IMF's Ms. Christine Lagarde statement on Greece: Key points are: 1) Per Lagarde, “of critical importance for Greece’s ability t...
Friday, July 17, 2015

17/7/15: Eurogroup tightens screws on Greece: Bridge v MoU

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Eurogroup statement on Greece (h/t @FGoria): Key: Bridge finance via EFSM (as rumoured, so no surprise here); Bridge finance securi...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

14/7/15: IMF Update on Greek Debt Sustainability

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Predictably... following yet another leak... the IMF has been forced to publish its update to the 'preliminary' Greek debt sustain...

14/7/15: The Brave New World of IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis

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According to the secret IMF report released to the European leaders prior to the Sunday-Monday summits, "The dramatic deterioration i...
Monday, July 13, 2015

13/7/15: A Promise of a Deal = An Actual Surrender

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So we finally have a 'historic' agreement on Greece. You know the details: Tsipras surrendered on everything, except one thing....
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

8/7/15: Latest Round of Greece Talks: Smoke, Fire, Grexit

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Summit / Eurogroup takeaways: 1. No progress of any variety beyond the usual agreement to have more talks 2. Short term deal 'weig...
Friday, February 27, 2015

27/2/15: Of a momentary surrender and a longer fight: Greece v Eurogroup

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Couple more earlier comments on Greek situation for print edition of Expresso, 31.12.2015 pages 8-9 and online http://expresso.sapo.pt/os-...

27/2/15: Running out of cash: Greece heading into March

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My comments to Portuguese Expresso on Greek agreement: http://leitor.expresso.pt/#library/expressodiario/26-02-2015/caderno-1/temas-prin...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

22/2/15: Ifo on Eurogroup Conclusions

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Ifo's Hans-Werner Sinn on Eurogroup deal for Greece: I failed to spot where the Eurogroup allows for any 'additional cas...
Friday, February 20, 2015

20/2/15: Troika 3 : Greece 1. Rematch on Monday.

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Eurogroup agreement on Greece 'achieved' tonight is a classic can kicking exercise in which Eurogroup and the Troika have won, Gre...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

21/11/2012: Brave Face of the Eurogroup is not enough

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Headlines from yesterday's eurogroup summit hitting this morning wires are far from encouraging: Dutch finance minister Dijsselbloe...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25/9/2012: Some questions on foot of latest ESM statement

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From today's Joint Statement of the Ministers of Finance of Germany, the Netherlands and Finland ( link here ): " Specifically, ...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

17/6/2012: Stability & Greek elections

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Quote of the week: Pamela McCourt: "Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis. - Ernest Weekley, lexicographer". To...