ATHENS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Greece must be helped to avoid financial contagion on the scale of the Lehman Brothers meltdown in 2008, Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders told a Greek newspaper on... BRUSSELS, March 9 (Reuters) - Greece told euro zone finance ministers it would force investors holding bonds governed by Greek law but who did not subscribe to its debt swap to participate in the... BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Greek government and financial markets were cheered on Tuesday by an agreement between euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund to reduce Greece's debt, paving the way for the release of urgently needed aid loans. ATHENS, April 22 (Reuters) - Greece's second-largest lender Piraeus Bank said on Monday it signed a deal with Portuguese lender Millennium BCP to acquire its Greek unit as part of consolidation in the Greek banking to cope with fallout from the debt crisis. National Bank of Greece NBG lost EUR 1.5 billion ($2.1 billion), or EUR 1.55 per share, in the second quarter. Dealing a heavy blow to earnings was a EUR 1.3 billion write-down on Greek government bonds. Besides this impairment, the firm had to deal with high trading losses and elevated provisions, ... "Those who bet on Greece collapsing and the EU being seriously wounded will lose," says Greek PM Samaras, following a meeting with Angela Merkel (whose visit to Athens unleashed a major protest ). The Greek people are bleeding, he says, but determined to stay in the euro. 3 comments! BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in an interview he aimed to bring about a "spectacular" transformation in Greece and more had been achieved in the last two months than in the previous three decades. BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in an interview he aimed to bring about a "spectacular" transformation in Greece and more had been achieved in the last two months... ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday denied there was even unofficial discussion over Greece quitting the euro zone and asked that his troubled country be "left alone to finish its task." German finmin Wolfgang Schaeuble rules out haircuts for eurozone governments that hold Greek bonds, saying such writedowns wouldn't be legal. However, Schaeuble does say Greece could be given new loans to repurchase existing debt. His comments come as German legislators become increasingly resigned ...