About: Greek haircut

Tsipras reminds EU partners of Germany’s post-war debt cut

Sixty-three years after the 1953 London Debt Agreement (8 August), Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stressed that Europe should rise to the occasion and grant Athens a debt relief.

Eurozone okays Greek bailout, wooing IMF on debt

Eurozone finance ministers agreed on Friday to lend Greece up to €86 billion in return for an unprecedented package of reforms that Athens had previously rejected and which has divided Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his party.

German conservatives reject Greek demands for debt haircut, end to Troika visits

Ahead of a visit from the new Greek Finance Minister in Berlin on Thursday (5 February), the centre-right faction in the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house, is standing its ground on Greece’s reform commitments, rejecting a debt haircut and an end to Troika inspections. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Germany says ‘no’ to a second Greek haircut, for now

A resounding “no” to World War II compensations and a second "haircut" to shave off parts of Greece's debt mountain marked the visit of the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble yesterday (18 July) in Athens. EURACTIV Greece reports.