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Debt restructuring
The decisions of 21 July 2011
in The European debt crisis
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The chapter focuses on the circumstances leading to the decision of the European Council, in July 2011, to initiate the restructuring of Greek debt, involving the voluntary contribution of private investors. Amidst intense party political infighting and mounting economic problems in Greece, European leaders performed a major policy u-turn accepting the inevitability of a debt write-off, which, until then, was firmly off the agenda. In exchange the Greek government accepted the intensification of its economic adjustment programme, through a revised Memorandum. These decisions gave European leaders some breathing space, but the underlying problems of economic governance in the Eurozone remained.

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The European debt crisis

The Greek case

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