IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at the “G20: Compact With Africa”.
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South Africa will be well advised to start preparing itself for an International Monetary Fund programme as the country faces a deepening economic crisis.
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A clueless Tory government and a degenerate EU bureaucracy are locked in a pointless conflict. There must be something more than this.
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The US election confirmed the death of an extraordinary economic era. Now, control of the next must be wrested from the emboldened nationalists.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
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An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Taking the mic. Varoufakis.
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Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
Outgoing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would ‘wear the creditors’ loathing with pride’.
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Ongoing negotiations between Greece and the troika are likely to prove futile - what’s needed is a complete rethink of EU’s dualistic system.
Varoufakis said he resigned to help the negotiations.
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who led a failed strategy to change the terms of Greece’s bailout, resigned Monday.
Celebrations by No supporters on July 5 in front of Greek parliament in Athens.
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The Greek rejection of the bailout means it’s time to brace ourselves: Grexit is now an 80% probability.
Grexit puts everyone at risk.
Martin Capek
European leaders have consistently claimed that their anti-contagion measures would protect the rest of the eurozone from a Greek exit. This looks like pure propaganda.
Greece owes what was once called a ‘man payment’.
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It might seem like Greece and Europe are arguing about money, but it’s really all about vengeance.
Who’s the real basket case?
EPA/Orestis Panagiiotou
Five years of turmoil shows the union rests on shaky legal foundations.
Game for a fight? Varoufakis arrives in Brussels.
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Yanis Varoufakis was supposed to have an academic advantage in tangled talks with the Troika. But politics can mess with the most careful plans.
Greece’s relief could be short-lived.
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Having secured a temporary debt deal, Greece must now come clean on the economic reforms it plans to get the country back on track.
With a temporary EU debt deal done, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis must now deliver his economic reform plan.
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Crisis postponed. On Friday, Greece, the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brokered a four-month extension of bailout loans to the newly-installed government of Alexis Tsipras…
Newly appointed Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis arrives at the Presidential Palace to be sworn-in under Greece’s new government.
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Since 2009, the economic situation of Greece has helped expose the architecture and policy regime problems of the European Union and the eurozone. On Sunday the Greek electorate rebelled against the self-defeating…