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Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe is re-elected as President of the Eurogroup.
2022-12-5

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

Eurozone leaders agree on a bailout deal for Greece providing the Hellenic Parliament passes reforms into law by July 15.
2015-07-13

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

A bailout plan is submitted two hours before the midnight deadline. The plan would raise a retirement age to 67 and cut pensions by 15% for those retiring at 62.
2015-07-10

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 Greek bailout program by the European Union ends today with Greece failing to make a payment to the International Monetary Fund.
2015-06-30

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