TITLE

Greece In Arrears

PUB. DATE

July 2015

SOURCE

Moderate Voice;7/1/15, p4

SOURCE TYPE

Blog Entry

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that Greece missed its scheduled 1.5 billion U.S dollar debt repayment and has become the first advanced economy to default in International Monetary Fund's seven decade history. It reveals that demands for bailout to help pay more than 30 billion U.S dollar in future and to prevent austerity measures, have been made by Greek politicians. It also mentions that Greek politicians are expected to continue their negotiations with European finance chiefs.

ACCESSION #

103685399

 

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