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Messing up the next Greek debt relief could endanger the Eurozone

Wyplosz, C., (2013), “Messing up the next Greek debt relief could endanger the Eurozone”, VoxEU, 23 September.

Greece is in dire straits; it will need more debt relief. This column argues that Greece is suffering because northern EZ countries kicked the can down the road by forcing crisis countries to borrow rather than restructure their debts early on. It is time for the ‘generous’ lenders to face the consequences of their short-sightedness. The bad news that Chancellor Merkel ought to break now to her people is that official debt restructuring is inevitable.

 

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