Keynote speech of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Greece, Mr. Evangelos Venizelos at the official dinner closing the 1st Economic Forum Greece-UAE 2012

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, First of all, I would like to warmly thank the organizers of this meeting, primarily my dear colleague and friend, Theodore Pangalos, who invited me to address tonight’s event. I had the opportunity to meet His Highness the Foreign Minister, with whom we overviewed our bilateral relations and the situation in the wider region. For Greece, the United Arab Emirates is a point of reference in the Gulf Area. It is a country with which we maintain close and sincere ties of friendship as well as strategic cooperation.

11 | 01 | 2012

Statement by Evangelos Venizelos in response to media reports about a 'proposal for the appointment of a special EU Commissioner in charge of the Greek state budget execution,'

In response to media reports about a 'proposal for the appointment of a special EU Commissioner in charge of the Greek state budget execution,' Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, made the following statement: "The people of Greece is fully aware of the extent of assistance the country receives from its institutional partners in Europe. With their sacrifices, Greeks will fulfill their historical obligation to take Greece out of the deep fiscal, social and developmental crisis, and will take and implement tough, yet necessary, decisions.

29 | 01 | 2012

Greece Commences Bondholder Consultations

Athens. The Ministry of Finance of the Hellenic Republic today announced that it has commenced a series of consultations with holders of Hellenic Republic bonds (through the IIF, other industry bodies, and directly).  These consultations are being undertaken as part of the preparation for a transaction affecting those bonds consistent with paragraph 12 of the Euro Summit Statement of 26 October 2011.The October 26 Statement calls for an exchange of Hellenic Republic bonds in the hands of private sector creditors for new bonds of the Hellenic Republic in order to achieve a 50% nominal reduction in the outstanding stock of that debt.  That transaction will be designed to place Greece on a path to achieve a debt-to-GDP ratio of no more than 120% by 2020.

17 | 11 | 2011

Latest Updates

example0 Interview of the Greek Finance Minister Mr. Evangelos Venizelos during his arrival for the Ecofin meeting in Brussels

Interview of the Greek Finance Minister Mr. Evangelos Venizelos during his arrival for the Ecofin meeting in Brussels

30 | 11 | 2011

Interview of the Greek Finance Minister Mr. Evangelos Venizelos during his arrival for the Ecofin meeting in Brussels

example1 Public address of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Greece, Mr. Evangelos Venizelos, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on "The Greek Debt Crisis: Prospects and Opportunities" (2/2)

Public address of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Greece, Mr. Evangelos Venizelos, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on "The Greek Debt Crisis: Prospects and Opportunities"

25 | 07 | 2011

Public address of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Greece, Mr. Evangelos Venizelos, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on "The Greek Debt Crisis: Prospects and Opportunities" (2/2)