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From default to investment grade: A brief history of Greek debt
In 2009, Greece’s ballooning budget deficit raised concerns about the sustainability of the country’s debt. This triggered a crisis that lasted almost a decade.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Europe (284), Politics (389), Economy (333), Greece (500)
From pipe dreams to power cables: the changing map of Greece's energy ambitions
Greece’s aspiration to become a regional gas hub has been tempered by increasingly stringent climate targets and efforts to reduce the use of natural gas as part of the EU’s response to the Ukraine war.
Contributor: Georgia Nakou
Categories: Europe (284), Politics (389), Economy (333), Greece (500)
Can the Green Transition be just?
The European Green Deal (EGD) is essentially the EU’s development strategy for 2050. Its central goal is for Europe to become, by the middle of the century, the first climate-neutral continent, namely, to reach a point where greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy are fully offset by carbon dioxide removals, either naturally or through various technologies.
Contributor: Nikos Mantzaris
Categories: Europe (284), Politics (389), Economy (333), Society (142), Greece (500)
China-EU: Navigating an increasingly complex relationship
The EU-China summit in Beijing on 7-8 December 2023 took place twenty months after the previous online event, which was famously panned as a “dialogue of the deaf”. This time around, the summit was preceded by efforts on both sides towards some sort of re-engagement in the wake of pandemic-induced travel restrictions and absence of in-person meetings for more than two years.
Contributor: Plamen Tonchev
Categories: Europe (284), Politics (389), Economy (333)
Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
It is fall season (2023), which means that the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Greece, the European Commission, and the OECD and IMF, among others, look ahead and present their near-term outlook for the Greek economy. This blog attempts to place the messages in context by looking underneath the surface. Can we ascertain Greece’s structural underlying basis?
Contributor: Bob Traa
Categories: Europe (284), Economy (333), Greece (500)