Rising French government bond yields and mounting political uncertainty have renewed comparisons with Greece's sovereign debt crisis, although France continues to access financial markets and faces significantly lower borrowing pressures than Greece did before its 2010 bailout.
France's public debt...
Greece’s stock market entered FTSE Russell’s developed-market group Monday, marking another step in the country’s recovery from the sovereign debt crisis that battered its economy and financial system. The change, effective from Monday, moves Greek shares out of FTSE’s...
Greece is planning to repay about €13 billion ($15.1 billion) more of its bailout-era debt ahead of schedule, extending a remarkable financial turnaround that has taken the country from the center of Europe's sovereign debt crisis to borrowing at...
A new peer-reviewed study has estimated that Greece experienced approximately 854 excess infant deaths between 2010 and 2020 compared with a modeled scenario in which the country had not undergone austerity of comparable depth and duration during its debt...
A court in Athens ordered the pre-trial detention of two men accused in connection with the deadly 2010 arson attack on a Marfin Bank branch in central Athens that claimed the lives of three employees during anti-austerity protests.
The two...
The memoir by Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the key figures of the 2009-2018 Greek debt crisis who died in December 2023, is hitting bookstores in Germany on Monday.
The memoir, titled Memories. My Life in Politics, delves into the Greek crisis...
Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras announced the successful reissue of Greece's 5-year and 30-year bonds. These bonds allow investors to invest in the Greek government's sovereign debt for the next 5 or 30 years, depending on which bond they...
Former US President Obama, in his gigantic new book of memoirs called "A Promised Land," released on Tuesday, speaks at some length about Greece's debt crisis, which he admitted kept him and his aides up at night during its...
Greece on Wednesday denied reports that the planned issue of a 10-year government bond had been postponed, pointing out that no decision to issue such a bond had been made.
Earlier, Reuters reported that Athens had decided to push back...
Tourism in Greece is on the rise and the revenue from the tourism sector is crucial for putting the Greek economy in the green. However, even with the 9 percent increase in tourism this year, there are still factors...
