August 2, 2013
The IMF released its latest review of the Greek bailout on Wednesday. As might be expected it was a bit more critical than the version released by the European Commission and ECB a couple of days ago.As also might be expected the press has focuse…
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debt relief, EU-IMF memorandum, Greece, Greek bailout, imf, official sector, OSI, PSI, sovereign debt, troika |
March 13, 2012
Reuters has just released the latest EU/IMF/ECB troika report – the first to fully account for the bond swap and its impact on Greek debt. We’ll provide a fuller run down once we’ve had more time to trawl through the 195 page report (we have to g…
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crisis, EFSF, eu, eurozone. bail-out, finance, Greece, imf, PSI, restructuring, sovereign debt, troika |
March 9, 2012
Open Europe has responded to the agreement between the Greek government and its private creditors which laid out how much and under what format the country’s massive €360bn debt burden should be written down. The deal involved private sector bondho…
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austerity, bail-out, CACs, EFSF, eurozone, Greece, PSI, restructuring, sovereign debt |
February 21, 2012
We finally have an agreement on the second Greek bailout…in principle. It only took eight months. If you’re of the belief that a disorderly Greek default would have triggered Armageddon, the deal that was agreed (as ever ‘agreed’ is used loosel…
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austerity, bail-out, bank capital, crisis, ECB, EFSF, eurozone, germany, Greece, PSI, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
February 17, 2012
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg – top of the pile in Europe according to the FT – today gave the EU committee of the Swedish Riksdag the lowdown ahead of Monday’s meeting of EU finance ministers (in some countries, lo and behold, ministers a…
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anders borg, china, ECB, euro, eurozone, Greece, italy, PSI, sovereign debt, Spain, Sweden, usa |
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