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  • 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 debt crisis
    Greece to make push for ECB to keep buying its bonds

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

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    News in-depth
    Piraeus port deal intensifies Greece’s unease over China links

    Beijing cements control of key EU infrastructure but locals say they have not seen the investment they expected

  • Friday, 13 August, 2021
    Greece
    ‘We were at God’s mercy’: islanders count cost of Greek wildfires

    Lives and livelihoods destroyed as conflagrations rage across southern Mediterranean

  • 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

  • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
    News in-depth
    Greece struggles to find tourism workers due to risk of more lockdowns

    Worries about the return of Covid restrictions deter staff and threaten economic recovery

  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    Sovereign bonds
    Greek 5-year bond yield turns negative for first time

    Investors head in to riskier European debt confident that eurozone’s central bank has no plans to taper support

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    EU fund gives ‘Greece 2.0’ chance to reset economic model

    Brussels to scrutinise Athens’ rebuilding plan in wake of financial crises and pandemic

  • Sunday, 28 March, 2021
    News in-depthEuropean economy
    European tourism: ‘With another lost summer, many businesses will disappear’

    Industry battles for survival as slow vaccine rollout threatens to delay reopening

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    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
    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 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
    Greece debt crisis
    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 debt crisis
    Greece on the 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 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

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