Thomas Wieser

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis arrived in Brussels on Thursday to participate in the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings.

Hatzidakis was to present the priorities of the Greek government in the field of economic policy at the Eurogroup meeting on Thursday.

The presentation of Eleni Varvitsioti and Viktoria Dendrinou's book "The Last Bluff" (published by Papadopoulos) took place on Monday evening in a packed amphitheater at the Benaki Museum annex on Pireos Street, south of central Athens.

The release of the publication was commemorated at an event entitled "Slovenian economic policy and social wellbeing", organized by the Delo media company at the Faculty of Economy, University of Ljubljana. The keynote speaker, Thomas Wieser, the former President of the EU Economical and Financial Committee.

Having stepped down as head the Eurogroup Working Group in January, Thomas Wieser speaks to Kathimerini without the restrictions that came with the office.

At Delphi on Friday, former premier Costas Simitis backed the Bank of Greece in its support for a precautionary line of credit after the end of Greece's bailout program, but former Euro Working Group president Thomas Wieser said that was "rather unlikely."

The first six months of the leftist-led SYRIZA government cost Greece around 200 billion euros,  former Euro Working Group chief Thomas Wieser told the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday, describing that estimate as "safe" and "conservative."

The first six months of the leftist-led SYRIZA government cost Greece around 200 billion euros,  former Euro Working Group chief Thomas Wieser told the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday, describing that estimate as "safe" and "conservative."

The first six months of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government in 2015 didn't just cost Greece 100 billion euros, but "probably twice as much," the former head of the Euro Working Group, Thomas Wieser, told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant in an interview.

Outgoing Euro Working Group Thomas Wieser has said that no other government has embraced economic reforms linked to Greece's bailout program to the extent that the current coalition led by leftist SYRIZA.

A debt relief deal after the current bailout program expires in August will mean fresh commitments from Athens toward its international creditors and not a so-called "clean exit" as the government anticipates, outgoing Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) chief Thomas Wieser told Kathimerini on Sunday.