Tag: Giorgos Papakonstantinou

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 02:24 UTC

  Euro Zone and IMF Agree to 110 Billion Euro Aid for Greece; Summit in Brussels

  

  Euro zone members and the IMF have agreed to a 110 billion Euro (146.2 billion US dollars) three-year bailout package to rescue Greece's embattled economy. In return for the loans, Greece will make major austerity cuts which Prime Minister George Papandreou said involved “great sacrifices”.