The European Union approved the
disbursement of its last $17 billion tranche of bailout funding Saturday,
putting Greece’s
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bay — for now.With the last part of the $156 billion bailout package in place,
the struggling nation will be able to keep functioning for a little while
longer. The disbursement, which will be made by July 15, follows the Greek
Parliament’s approval of new austerity measures.
This latest piece is the fifth tranche of a
bailout that was approved by members of the European Union last year.”The Greek
authorities provided a strong commitment to adhere to the agreed fiscal
adjustment path, and to the growth-enhancing structural reform agenda, which
are essential components of our strategy to restore fiscal sustainability and
safeguard financial stability,” ministers said in a statement Saturday.European
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a highly contentious subject in Greece. As the Greek Parliament voted in favor
of the funding on June 28, thousands of protesters descended on Athens and clashed with
riot police. Tear gas choked the streets as protesters and police pounded each
other with clubs and firebombs.However, the bailout won’t take care of the
nation’s long-term budget problems, according to Mark Blyth, an economics
professor at Brown University in Providence,
R.I.”This is simply giving them
more breathing space, while they’re kicking the can down the road,” Blyth Man Utd Shirt said,
referring to the bailout. “They need to have enough money to cover the primary
fiscal debt, and for keeping the lights on at the hospitals and military bases.
Once they’ve got that, they’re able to default without shutting down the
country.”
Blyth believes that a Greek default is inevitable. “Ultimately, there’s
no way the Greeks can pay back what they’ve borrowed,” he said.The debt-ridden
nation has “heavy near-term financing requirements,” according to S&P, with
about $135 billion in government debt maturing between now and the end of 2013.
An additional $82 billion is set to mature in 2014.Still, the rest of Europe
does not want Greece to default, because it would rupture the bond market and
undermine the European banking system so severely that the repercussions could
be felt on Wall Street.Greek austerity: Cure or poison?The French banking
association and the German Finance Ministry Man
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proposals to keep the Greeks from defaulting on $152 billion worth in bonds.
These proposals offer different variations on the same theme: rolling over
Greek debt. As explained by Barclays (BCS), one of the options is to roll the
debt into a 30-year bond, with at least 70% backed by private sector
investors.For the Greeks, there is one part of their future that is crystal
clear: more austerity. In order to qualify for the final tranche of the
bailout, the Greek Parliament had to agree to a new raft of austerity measures,
in addition to the ones that were imposed on the Greek people last year. This
is why people were rioting in the streets of Athens.