Greece's bailout expires, country defaults
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Wednesday, 1 July 2015
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Greece has slipped deeper into its financial abyss after the bailout program it has relied on for five years expired and the country failed to repay a loan due to the International Monetary Fund.
With its failure to repay the 1.6 billion euros ($A2.31 billion) to the IMF, Greece became the first developed country to fall into arrears on payments to the fund.
The last country to do so was Zimbabwe in 2001.
After Greece made a last-ditch effort to extend its bailout, eurozone finance ministers decided in a teleconference late on Tuesday night that there was no way they could reach a deal before the deadline.
"It would be crazy to extend the program," said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the eurozone finance ministers' body known as the eurogroup.
"So that cannot happen and will not happen."
The brinkmanship that has characterised Greece's bailout negotiations with its European creditors and the IMF rose several notches over the weekend, when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced he would put a deal proposal by creditors to a referendum on Sunday and urged a "No" vote.
The move increased fears the country could soon fall out of the euro currency bloc and Greeks rushed to pull money out of ATMs, leading the government to shut its banks on Monday and impose restrictions on banking transactions for at least a week.
Greeks are now limited to ATM withdrawals of 60 euros a day and cannot send money abroad or make international payments without special permission.
But in a surprise move late on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis hinted that the government might be open to calling off the popular vote, saying it was a political decision.
The government decided on the referendum, he said on state television, "and it can make a decision on something else". It was unclear, however, how that would be possible as Parliament has already voted for it to go ahead.
With its economy teetering on the brink, Greece suffered its second sovereign downgrade in as many days when the Fitch ratings agency lowered it further into junk status, to just one notch above the level where it considers default inevitable.
The agency said the breakdown of negotiations "has significantly increased the risk that Greece will not be able to honour its debt obligations in the coming months, including bonds held by the private sector".
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