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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Greece debt crisis
      Greece credit rating raised to investment grade for first time since debt crisis

      DBRS Morningstar’s upgrade expected to lead to a series of similar upward revisions from junk status

      Greek flag flutters by the hand of a statue
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Yield on Greece sovereign debt falls to lowest level against Italy for 24 years

      Greek bond prices surge on PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s election victory

      A woman walks past displayed newspapers in Athens
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Greek politics
      Greek PM Mitsotakis routs rivals in parliamentary election

      Ruling New Democracy unexpectedly increases share of vote but falls short of outright majority

      Incumbent Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses New Democracy supporters on Sunday evening at the party’s headquarters in Athens
    • 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

      Employees prepare ballot papers for distribution to municipalities in Attica region and consequently to polling stations at a warehouse in the Athens area
    • 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

      An election poster of Yanis Varoufakis, in Athens, Greece
    • 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

      Shoppers in central Athens
    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Greece’s ‘greatest turnround’: from junk to investment grade

      After more than a decade of bailouts and painful austerity measures, the country has rebounded

      Tourists at the Areios Pagos Hill
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      InterviewEurozone economy
      Greece months away from investment-grade rating, says central bank chief

      Bank of Greece head Yannis Stournaras adamant 2023 will be the year when the country consigns its junk status to history

      Yannis Stournaras
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Europe Express
      Greece was warned about its railway standards 15 days before fatal crash Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: the EU’s energy-crisis support funds didn’t go where they were most needed

      Firefighters and rescue crews work to extricate passengers from trains after a collision near Larissa city, Greece
    • 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

      Andreas Georgiou (L) speaks to the press as then Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou looks on, in Athens in 2010
    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Cheap loans set to give young Greeks a shot at a home of their own

      Government programme will offer mortgages for as little as 1% to address an affordability crisis

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      Greece debt crisis
      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

      The EU and Greek flags near the Acropolis in Athens
    • 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

      New housing south of Athens
    • 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

      Exterior of the Bank of Greece
    • 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

      Xi Jinping, left, China’s president, with Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Piraeus port in November 2019
    • 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

      Hellinikon’s mayor on a hill overlooking the former Athens airport in May 2021
    • 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

      Athens skyline
    • 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

      A family on Paguera beach on the Spanish island of Mallorca in March 2021
    • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
      Greece sells first 30-year bond since 2008 financial crisis

      Robust demand highlights brightening fortunes for once-embattled eurozone borrower

      Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens
    • 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

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