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  • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
    Greece
    Bets against Greek bonds hit highest level since 2014

    Investors’ nerves mount over the possibility of political paralysis after this weekend’s election

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    Economic situation takes centre stage at Greek elections Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: floods in northern Italy make stark the impact of climate change, again

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Eleni Varvitsioti
    Yanis Varoufakis is back — and he has a plan

    The leftwing former Greek finance minister is making waves ahead of Sunday’s elections

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Greece’s economic revival is still a work in progress

    Athens’ rise from the debt crisis is impressive but the next government must build on it

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Megan Greene
    Greece must show robust data matters and stop persecuting Georgiou

    The country should not forget the need for strong and independent institutions in its dash for growth

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    EU to end scrutiny of Greek economy after 12 years of turmoil

    Nation was plunged into debt crisis and bailout programme after global financial crash

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    News in-depthGreece
    Access to EU recovery funds gives Greek companies a chance to compete

    Athens finalises innovative scheme that will lower the cost of loans for many businesses

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
    Greece to make push for ECB to keep buying its bonds

    End of pandemic emergency purchases risks leaving Greek junk bonds without European support

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    Greece
    Greece finally starts work on €8bn Athens ‘riviera’

    Delayed for seven years, Hellinikon real estate project seen as critical for country’s post-pandemic recovery

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    Greek economy
    Greece sells first 30-year bond since 2008 financial crisis

    Robust demand highlights brightening fortunes for once-embattled eurozone borrower

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Greek politics
    Greece to buy squadron of Rafale jets from France

    €2.5bn deal marks one of Athens’ first major defence purchases since financial crisis

  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
    Greek debt sale ‘bodes well’ for busy eurozone issuance

    Athens taps market after 10-year borrowing costs hit record lows last month

  • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
    InterviewCoronavirus
    Mitsotakis vows Greece will not bow to EU conditions on Covid-19 aid

    Prime minister says his country has ‘matured a lot’ since debt crisis and will set its own agenda

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    Sovereign bonds
    Greek 10-year bond yield falls below 1% for first time

    Country’s borrowing costs hit record low as economic recovery takes hold

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Greek economy: will reality collide with fresh optimism in Athens?

    The new government has set confident growth targets, but they depend on high levels of foreign investment

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    News in-depthMarkets
    Aftershocks and fragility: 10 years in financial markets

    How the crisis of 2008 continued to reverberate through the following decade

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    Greek parliament approves bank loans restructuring plan

    Scheme will remove up to €30bn of non-performing loans from banks’ balance sheets

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    Greece
    Greece woos the wealthy with plan for ‘non-dom’ tax breaks

    Shipowners and entrepreneurs courted with incentives in Athens’ effort to revive economy

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    Special ReportFTfm: Fixed Income
    Rise of sub-zero bond yields turns economic logic on its head

    Even Greece now issues negative yielding debt as number of countries paid to borrow grows

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Greece on the mend as debt rehabilitation gathers pace

    Investors now see Athens as a safer eurozone bet than Italy

  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    ReviewBooks
    The Last Bluff, by Viktoria Dendrinou and Eleni Varvitsioti

    A harrowingly detailed tale of incompetence and intransigence in the Greek debt crisis

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
    EU signs off on Greek scheme to clean up banks’ bad debts

    Vestager approves plan to allow Athens to guarantee a slice of non-performing loan sales

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2019
    Greece
    Greece joins club of negative-yielding debt issuers

    Milestone comes alongside new record-low borrowing costs for Portugal

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Greeks find film on Varoufakis a box-office turn-off

    ‘Adults in the Room’ is a rare attempt to make artistic sense of the financial crisis

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
    Megan Greene
    Greece’s economy is resurgent but still fragile

    The reforms made during its crisis failed to address competitiveness issues

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