As fraught negotiations play out in Europe over a Greek bailout, the country has fallen back into recession.
As fraught negotiations play out in Europe over a Greek bailout, the country has fallen back into recession.
It couldn’t come at a worse time. The country desperately needs cash not just to avoid defaulting on loans but also to prop up its sagging economy. The modest growth of a few quarters ago would have only just begun to dig Greece out of a deep, deep hole: the recession wiped out more than a quarter of GDP since the first quarter of 2008.
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Employment has suffered too…
…as have retail sales, which show how hard domestic consumption has been hit.
Whether Greece will get a lifeline from Germany and the rest of its euro zone creditors remains to be seen, but it needs one, and fast.
