Sentences with phrase «of eurozone finance ministers»

Crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers will be held on Monday amid backdrop of violence in Athens over cuts worth $ 5.4 bn

Greece's leftist - led coalition will turn to the lightning rod issue of debt relief on Monday at a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers following the late - night approval in Athens of laws overhauling the country's tax and pension system.

Speaking in Berlin after meeting with members of the center - left Social Democratic Party, Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands, the leader of the eurozone finance ministers, criticized Mr. Schäuble for raising the suggestion of a Greek exit.

Merkel adopts Macron's call for eurozone finance minister German chancellor Angela Merkel has joined French president Emmanuel Macron in calling for the creation of a eurozone finance minister in order to increase fiscal integration in the single - currency area.

Not exact matches

Having failed, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the austere president of the eurozone's finance ministers, was quick to discredit the IMF, accusing the Fund of using outdated models of Greece's public finances.

Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out of the single currency to put the fear of God into the French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian eurozone.

In my first week as minister for finance I was visited by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup (the eurozone finance ministers), who put a stark choice to me: accept the bailout's «logic» and drop any demands for debt restructuring or your loan agreement will «crash» — the unsaid repercussion being that Greece's banks would be boarded up.

AMY GOODMAN: Jean - Claude Juncker is prime minister of Luxembourg and head of the Eurogroup of 17 eurozone finance ministers.

I think he's laying the groundwork to suggest that the finance ministers of individual countries need to work with him to get the eurozone going in the right direction.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

On Monday, finance ministers in the Eurozone also talked about the possibility of giving Greece a further two years to fix the economy.

In an uncharacteristically short meeting of the eurozone's finance ministers in Brussels, president of the eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the Greek government ought to stop throwing away time and begin enacting the reforms it requirements to complete its $ 7.2 bn in bail - out extension.

Greek bailout lenders at loggerheads The International Monetary Fund and eurozone finance ministers remain at odds over the direction of the Greek bailout process.

The news of Greek finance minister Varoufakis» resignation is being perceived as an incremental positive for negotiations, but we think the «No» vote in Greece over the first weekend in July, the precarious position of the Greek banking system, and eurozone policymaker distrust of the current Greek government have clearly raised the chances of a Greek eurozone exit.

Speaking in the Commons today, Mr Osborne played down the contradiction, saying: «When eurozone central bank governors and finance ministers openly speculate on the possibility of Greek exit, then the genie is out of the bottle.»

European Central Bank chief Jean - Claude Trichet and the chairman of the eurozone group of finance ministers, Jean - Claude Juncker, also attended the meeting.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos attends a session of Parliament in Athens on Wednesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on reforms demanded by eurozone creditors in exchange for a new bailout.