Four years after the finalisation of the third Greek bailout, Greece is no longer subject to the close fiscal surveillance imposed on it by its European institutional creditors in the summer of 2018 (see EUROPE B12958A2).
Greece is closing “a difficult chapter in its long and proud history”, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said in a statement the same day. In a letter to Greek Finance Minister Christos Staïkoúras in early August, he said that Greece had fulfilled “the bulk of...