Search Results for: Christine Lagarde
Cyprus:‘Lagarde List’ accounts face €35mln in taxes
January 13th, 2016
Some €35mln in taxes have been imposed on undeclared deposits in 85 Swiss bank accounts included in the so-called Lagarde List, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday. Speaking before the House Watchdog and Ethics Committees, the minister said ...
Global growth will be disappointing in 2016: IMF’s Lagarde
December 30th, 2015
Global economic growth will be disappointing next year and the outlook for the medium-term has also deteriorated, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in a guest article for German newspaper Handelsblatt published on Wednesday. IMF Managing Director ...
IMF head Lagarde to face French trial over Tapie affair
December 18th, 2015
Christine Lagarde accused of negligence over €400m payout to businessman Bernard Tapie, who supported Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 presidential race. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is tostand trial in France over a multimillion-euro government payment to ...
IMF’s Lagarde Discusses Economic Challenges with GCC Countries
November 9th, 2015
Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today at the conclusion of a meeting in Qatar with the finance ministers and central bank governors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)1 : “I ...
Lagarde: China’s economy is not all ‘doom and gloom’
October 9th, 2015
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has said the outlook for China‘s economy is not all “doom and gloom”. “I would say that it’s a recovery that is decelerating a bit,” she told the BBC, but ...
PM Tsipras to meet Draghi, Juncker, Lagarde ahead of Eurogroup
June 24th, 2015
As eurozone finance ministers converge in Brussels on Wednesday to further assess Greece’s economic proposals in a bid to move toward a deal, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank ...
IMF Managing Director Lagarde’s statement on Greece – FM Yianis Varoufakis (Video)
April 6th, 2015
Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), met today with Mr. Yanis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance for Greece, for an informal discussion on the Greek government’s reform program. After the meeting, Ms. Lagarde made the ...
Lagarde: Greek officials ‘competent’, but deal will take time
February 12th, 2015
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis met with IMF chief Christine Lagarde after his arrival in Brussels, where an extraordinary Eurogroup meeting takes place on Thursday evening. Speaking afterwards, Lagarde said the Greek officials are “competent”, but said reaching an ...
IMF’s Lagarde rules out special treatment for Greece
January 26th, 2015
Greece must respect the euro zone’s rules and cannot demand special treatment for its debt in the wake of the victory of anti-austerity party Syriza, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said in a newspaper interview on Monday. “There are ...
Lagarde warns of ‘new mediocre’ era
October 3rd, 2014
The world economy is threatened by a mediocre era of low growth for a long time, warned Christine Lagarde as she signalled cuts to the global outlook for 2015. Ms Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said ...
