{"id":193677,"date":"2025-12-15T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:58:10","slug":"greece-pays-off-debt-worth-5-3-billion-euros-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193677\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece pays off debt worth 5.3 billion euros ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/euros_cash-thumb-large.jpg\" alt=\"Greece pays off debt worth 5.3 billion euros ahead of schedule\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/euros_cash-thumb-large.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Greece has paid off ahead of schedule debt worth \u20ac5.3 billion that had been due after 2031, two government officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s payment would allow Greece to save \u20ac1.6 billion in interest payments until 2041 and lower its debt to below 120% of its economic output by 2029, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said.<\/p>\n<p>The debt was part of Greece\u2019s first 2010 bailout from its euro zone 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>However, Greece still has the highest government debt-to-GDP ratio in the eurozone.<\/p>\n<p>Greece had planned to pay off loans granted under the first of three debt-crisis bailouts by 2031, ten years earlier than scheduled. [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece has paid off ahead of schedule debt worth \u20ac5.3 billion that had been due after 2031, two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,1322,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-193677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}