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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Greece Misses International Monetary Fund(IMF) Payment Deadline Tuesday June 30,2015

 

Greece has missed the deadline for a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)on Tuesday June 30,2015

Note

Only 3 other countries are still in arrears to the IMF - Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe. 

Between them, they owe €1.6bn, only marginally more than Greece.

What happens next?

1 July - Eurogroup - the finance ministers of the eurozone - holds a telephone conference to discuss new proposal from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
5 July - Referendum on creditors' proposals takes place, which many say is effectively a vote on Greek membership of the eurzone
20 July - Greece must redeem €3.46bn of bonds held by the European Central Bank. If it fails to do so, the ECB can cut off Greece's access to emergency loans

 IMF,the Washington-based fund said the Greek government failed to transfer €1.55 billion ($1.73 billion) by close-of-business on Tuesday—the largest, single missed repayment in the IMF’s history

Greece became the first developed country to default to the IMF, an organization of 188 nations that tries to keep the world economy stable

Greece will now be cut off from access to IMF resources until the payment is made.

The move came hours after the country made a desperate attempt Tuesday to halt its plunge into economic chaos by requesting a new European bailout.

On Tuesday morning—with the clock ticking toward the midnight expiration on the European portion of Greece’s €245 billion bailout—officials in Athens said they were working on a new solution to the four-month old impasse with creditors.
By the afternoon, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had asked for a new rescue program—the country’s third in five years—to help pay for some €29.15 billion ($32.52 billion) in debt coming due between 2015 and 2017.

Greece is fast running out of money. It rejected the conditions Europe and the IMF set for releasing the remaining billions from its existing bailout at the weekend. That bailout expired Tuesday June 30,2015

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