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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11375
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ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) greece

There will be no miracle slashing of Greek debt

Brussels, 26/08/2015 (Agence Europe) - It has been in the air since April 2014 and over time, has come true: the Europeans will move away from targets expressed in terms of debt/GDP ratio when they analyse the viability of the Greek debt, looking at financing requirements instead. It remains to be seen what the IMF will make of its argument that a massive debt will scare off investors.

On 12 November 2012, the managing director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and the then president of the...