International economics

G20 finance chiefs promised Sunday to "clearly communicate" their monetary policy actions "in a timely way", as emerging market member nations welcomed the US Federal Reserve's transparency on its tightening measures.

Members of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) and tax inspectors involved in an investigation into the so-called Lagarde list of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts expect to be able to announce results relating to around 20 names on the list in the coming weeks, Kathimerini understands.

To date, checks carried out on 25 savers from the list have only yielded the sum of 12 million euros.

Two prominent MPs of leftist SYRIZA on Friday called for economic prosecutors to summon International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde to testify as an “essential witness” in connection with an ongoing investigation into a list of 2,062 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts which was given to Greek authorities by Lagarde in 2012 when she was France’s finance minister.

A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered a probe into claims by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras that they received death threats for speaking out on tax evasion, Kathimerini understands.

The measures for the 2015 budget will be discussed during the official visit of the mission of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to Bucharest at end-November, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday.

Senior representatives of the Romanian government and the National Bank on Wednesday will start talks over the next assessment of the stand-by agreement with the IMF, the European Commission and World Bank.

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Judicial authorities are expected to launch an investigation into claims by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde that she received death threats after pushing for a crackdown on Greek tax evasion, Kathimerini understands.

Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou sent a letter to Lagarde, asking her to provide details about the threats, it emerged Tuesday.

Remittances - money sent by Bulgarian migrants to family members back home reached EUR 75.5M in July 2014.

The eurozone's trade surplus rose year-on-year in July as exports grew faster than imports, pointing to a positive contribution to economic growth at the start of the third quarter, the European Union's Statistics office data showed.

Arbitration over the fate of the Croatian national energy company, INA, between the Republic of Croatia and the Hungarian energy company, MOL, started on Friday before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, in Washington.

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