STAIKOURAS

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Staikouras outlines challenges, aims of economic reconstruction plan

The paramount challenge the government faces creating a new production model to help the floundering Greek economy recover even as the state struggles to prop it up with huge subsidies.

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Government satisfied with up to eight billion euros from eurozone pandemic package

The seven to eight billion euros to which Greece will have access will derive from three funding tools: The SURE programme, the European Investment Bank, and the European Stability mechanism (ESM).

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Finance minister confident about EU compromise on pandemic package

Christos Staikouras expects huge differences between larger member-states to be bridged at a second Eurogroup meeting tomorrow.

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Government buys time with stimulus package as Berlin denies lifeblood of coronabond

Berlin proposes that those hardest hit repair to the ESM for loans that would break the back of the highly indebted countries.