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Feb 2017
9m 50s

Greece's debt crisis

Financial Times
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Greece is approaching a crunch point - again. Six years after its first bailout, the government in Athens is looking to its creditors, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, for fresh help. Mehreen Khan discusses the latest crisis and what's at stake for Europe with the FT's Brussels correspondent Jim Brunsden.

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