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Irish Minister of Finance Paschal Donohoe is elected president of the Eurogroup, beating the candidatures of Spanish Minister Nadia Calviño and of Luxembourgish Minister Pierre Gramegna. He will succeed Mário Centeno.
2020-07-9

A new study shows Greece's six-year austerity program is even affecting prostitution. Gregory Laxos, a sociology professor at the Panteion University in Athens, told the "Times of London" the going rate for sex with a prostitute was 50 euros ($53) when the economic crisis began. Now, it’s fallen to as low as two euros ($2.12) for a 30-minute session, or to a cheese pie, a sandwich because they are hungry.
2015-11-27

Interim Prime Minister of Greece Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, the country's first female prime minister, was sworn in Thursday. The PM named her caretaker government cabinet that will oversee implementation of austerity measures required by the latest debt bailout with Eurogroup. Elections, required after Alexis Tsipras resigned last week, are scheduled for September 20, 2015, the third time Greeks will be going to the polls this year.
2015-08-28

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem was re-elected president of the Eurogroup for a second term.
2015-07-13

The Hellenic Parliament passes a package of economic reforms to end the current stage of the debt crisis.
2015-07-11

Moody's Investors Service downgrades Greek bonds further to caa3 saying that it expects the country to default further without further support from official creditors.
2015-07-1

The G7 summit gets underway in Germany with the Greek government-debt crisis and Ukrainian crisis dominating the agenda.
2015-06-7

The new Greek government, represented by finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, meets with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, and declares that Greece now rejects any further cooperation with its main international lenders known as the troika (the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the ECB); instead, it wants to negotiate directly with other European countries.
2015-01-30