Greece’s financial assistance programme (March 2016)

This briefing gives an overview if the economic situation in Greece and the main elements of the third financial assistance programme. This briefing is regularly updated. It served also as a background document for the delegation of the Financial Assistance Working Group to Athens end of March 2016. The previous update was made in view of an Economic Dialogue on 2 March 2016 with Mr Euclid Tsakalotos, Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic, in the competent Committee of the European Parliament.

Authors: J. Angerer, M. Hradiský, M. Ciucci, B. Mesnard, J. Vega Bordell and A. Zoppé.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

ESO: Background information: The Greek debt crisis: Key sources http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-greek-debt-crisis-key-sources/

ESO: Background information: Grexit back on the agenda again as Greek economy unravels http://www.europeansources.info/record/grexit-back-on-the-agenda-again-as-greek-economy-unravels/

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