Heather D. Gibson

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will be the keynote speaker at an Economist conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday titled "Greece: A Comeback to the Financial Markets?"

Also addressing the conference will be Alternate Economy Minister Alexis Haritsis, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras and his fellow ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Monday called on the International Monetary Fund not to seek a compromise that would be detrimental to Greece in comments at the 27th annual conference of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met with French Finance Minister Michel Sapin in Paris on Sunday in the framework of the Greek minister’s European itinerary.

At a joint press conference, Mr. Tsakalotos said that trust had been built around the strategy Greece is following, leading him to believe that a “responsible agenda” would be put together.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalos claimed that cutting the pensions was the right thing to do, during his speech at Economist conference.

Mr. Tsakalotos said that the government’s choice to cut the pensions was the right thing to do adding that social security system cannot solve all problems, such as as the employment, the tax system, etc.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will travel to London to meet with foreign investors following the Euro working group meeting which was held on Monday.

Tsakalotos will address the conference “Economic Blues: The left in government times” at the LSE, as he announced via his personal account on Twitter.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos appointed Frangiskos Koutentakis as the new General Secretary of Fiscal Policy, according to the ministry statement.

Petros Triarchis was appointed as new head of the General Secretariat for Information Systems.

Following a 6 hour meeting with  the representatives of the Quartet institutions, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos told the media about some of the issues covered.  The Greek Finance Minister said they talked about organizational matters, as well as how they intended to resolve any issue of misunderstanings or differences of opinion that might arise in a timely manner.

Greece?s new finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos is as discreet and tight-lipped as his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis was flamboyant and confrontational.

Tsakalotos, a 55-year-old leftist economist who had been a pointman in Greece?s bailout talks, was named as Varoufakis? replacement hours after his resignation on July 6.

Euclid Tsakalotos steps in to pick up the pieces of Greece’s tattered negotiations. He is the polar opposite to Varoufakis, the man who stuck up the middle finger at Berlin, came to blows with the Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem in a Brussels corridor and managed to join the Eurozone together against Greece.

Euclid Tsakalotos, the Oxford-educated economist was born in the Netherlands in 1960, and is soft-spoken and amiable and speaks Greek tinged with a faint British accent. Simple and professional, the new face of the Greek economy will be less about fashion style and more about method, organization and detail.