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The prospect of Greece leaving the euro and dealing with a devalued drachma prompted many people to start withdrawing their euros from the country's banks. [28] In the nine months to March 2012, deposits in Greek banks had already fallen 13% to € 160,000,000,000.
Despite the claims by analysts abroad and in Greece [34] that the referendum might open the way for Greece's withdrawal from the Eurozone, and despite polls showing that Greek citizens would prefer keeping the common currency "at all costs," [35] [36] the referendum, conducted on 5 July 2015, returned a result of 61.3% for "No" and 38.7% for "Yes."
In mid May 2012, the crisis and impossibility to form a new government after elections and the possible victory by the anti-austerity axis led to new speculations Greece would have to leave the eurozone shortly. [91] [92] [93] This phenomenon became known as "Grexit" and started to govern international market behaviour.
In the wake of Greece's debt crisis, the economic union of the European countries that share the euro as their common currency has been tested as never before. Some have suggested that the debacle ...
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A eurozone country can benefit from the program if – and for as long as – it is found to suffer from stressed bond yields at excessive levels; but only at the point of time where the country possesses/regains a complete market access – and only if the country still comply with all terms in the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU ...
Public debt $ and %GDP (2010) for selected European countries Government debt of Eurozone, Germany and crisis countries compared to Eurozone GDP. The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s that made it difficult or ...