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  • 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
    Greece debt crisis
    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 pandemic
    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

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Greece anxiously prepares for socially distanced beach life

    Country is a rare coronavirus success story but faces huge financial hit without tourism

  • 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

  • Monday, 13 January, 2020
    News in Focus podcast10 min listen
    Mitsotakis surfs wave of optimism in Greece

    How is Greece’s prime minister tackling the county’s entrenched economic problems?

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

    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
    Greece debt crisis
    Greek parliament approves bank loans restructuring plan

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

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

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

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    Special ReportFTfm: Fixed Income
    Sub-zero bond yields turn 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 debt crisis
    Greece on mend as debt rehabilitation gathers pace

    Investors now see Athens as a safer eurozone bet than Italy

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    Sovereign bonds
    Italy surpasses Greece as euro area’s riskiest borrower

    Yield-hungry investors have snapped up debt from former euro area crisis spots

  • 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
    Greece debt crisis
    EU backs 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
    Greece debt crisis
    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

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    Greece
    IMF says Greece needs lower fiscal targets

    Annual assessment says easing needed to support country’s recovery

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    Tony Barber
    Reasons for moderate optimism about Greece

    The political system has proved resilient but the pace of reform must not slacken

  • Sunday, 8 September, 2019
    Global Economy
    Greece’s Mitsotakis calls for tax cuts and reforms

    New prime minister throws his weight behind restructuring as economy improves

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2019
    Yield-seeking investors scurry back to Greece

    In a world of ultra-low interest rates, Athens’ relatively high yields are appealing

  • Sunday, 18 August, 2019
    Interview
    Greece’s new finance minister vows to prioritise tax reforms

    Christos Staikouras confident that overhaul will help accelerate growth

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    News in Focus podcast10 min listen
    Can Greece become an economic success story?

    Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party has returned to power after defeating the …

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    ExplainerCharts that Matter
    Greek bond yields drop below US Treasuries

    Rally in Greece’s sovereign bonds comes after election victory for centre-right party

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