Virtually unknown in Greek politics, but with a distinctive career in Economics, Professor Gikas Hardouvelis is the kind of technocrat the PM needed for the upvoming Troika negotiations.

On Friday, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras met with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, regarding the IMF's approval on Greece's 3.5 billion euro bailout expenditure.

Today, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras declared that Greece will return to growth shortly, while speaking at the Greek-German Chamber of Industry on Commerce's "Challenges and Prospects for the Greek Economy: The Day After".