Eurozone Finance Ministers on Thursday are meeting in Luxembourg to consider the course of the implementation of the Greek fiscal adjustment programme.

The first crash test for the new czar of Greek Economy will be held in Luxembourg on 19 and 20 June, with the new Minister to preside at the last Ecofin meeting during the Greek Presidency.

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.