{"id":636280,"date":"2025-12-16T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636280\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:55:24","slug":"early-repayment-of-debt-due-in-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636280\/","title":{"rendered":"Early repayment of debt due in 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flags_acropolis_web-thumb-large-thumb-large.jpg\" alt=\"Early repayment of debt due in 2031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flags_acropolis_web-thumb-large-thumb-large.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Greece paid off debt worth 5.3 billion euros that had been due after 2031 ahead of schedule on Monday, two government officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s payment would allow Greece to save \u20ac1.6 billion in interest payments up until 2041 and lower its debt to below 120% of its economic output by 2029, Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said.<\/p>\n<p>The debt was part of Greece\u2019s first 2010 bailout from its eurozone peers and the payment was made to each individual country through the European Commission, said a second official, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Greece had planned to pay off loans granted under the first of three debt-crisis bailouts by 2031, 10 years earlier than scheduled. [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece paid off debt worth 5.3 billion euros that had been due after 2031 ahead of schedule on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,2825,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-636280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-debt","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115730064278399510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}