Ministry of Finance

Greek Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that it doesn't make any sense to talk of a plan B. He also said that history has a way of working in a surprising manner, pointing to talk of German unification would have been considered "crazy" in 1989 within a year of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis took all the criticism leveled against him at the Eurogroup meeting on Friday in his stride. The rules of savoir vivre were put to the side as tension escalated. His Eurozone counterparts blame him for wasting time and of not playing by the rules.

Friday, April 24, was a "dark Friday" for Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. He responded to his critics with his usual round of "British" humor, with a cartoon sketch titled "A Picture Says a Thousand Words"?

Government sources said that the negotiations with the Brussels Group are continuing as usual following the return of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras from Brussels.

Greece was left in no doubt at Friday?s Eurogroup that it is running out of time and its lenders out of patience as they attempt to conclude negotiations so 7.2 billion euros in bailout funding can be disbursed.

By Ian Wishart and Jeff Black

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was heavily criticized by his euro-area colleagues amid mounting frustration at his refusal to deliver measures to fix his country?s economy and release financial aid, according to three people familiar with the talks.

By Robin Emmott and Jan Strupczewski

Greece offered concessions on Friday on some key reforms demanded by international lenders in exchange for new funding for the country as Athens quickly runs out of money.

- Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters that there was "great urgency" for a deal to be reached, however pointed out that "April isn't over yet."

- Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis disappointed everyone by sweeping in without making comments.

By Costas Iordanidis

The anniversary of the 1967 colonels? coup clearly inspired Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to draw present-day parallels with that tragic event.

?The government today faces a new kind of coup, one that is not carried out with tanks but through banks,? he said on Tuesday.

Former Greek premier Antonis Samaras said the current leftist SYRIZA government has "fooled the people and will now clash with itself or with Greece's partners", speaking in his first television interview since his New Democracy party lost the Jan. 25 election by coming in second.