{"id":4069,"date":"2015-01-05T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2015-01-05T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:01:13","slug":"samaras-warns-of-euro-exit-risk-as-greek-campaign-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"Samaras Warns of Euro Exit Risk as Greek Campaign Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2015-01-03\/germany-sees-greek-euro-exit-as-manageable-outcome-spiegel-says.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Samaras Warns of Euro Exit Risk as Greek Campaign Starts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s political parties embarked on a flash campaign for elections in less than three weeks that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said will determine the fate of the country\u2019s membership in the euro currency area.<\/p>\n<p>Samaras used a Jan. 2 speech to warn that victory for the main opposition Syriza party would cause default and Greece\u2019s exit from the 19-member euro region, while Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said his party would end German-led austerity.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/der-spiegel\/\">Der Spiegel<\/a>\u00a0magazine reported<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/chancellor-angela-merkel\/\">Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a>\u00a0is ready to accept a Greek exit, a development Berlin sees as inevitable and manageable if Syriza wins, as polls suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The high-stakes run-up to the Jan. 25 vote returns Greece to the center of European policy makers\u2019 attention as they strive to fend off a return of the debt crisis that wracked the region from late 2009, forcing international financial support for five EU countries. While Greek 10-year bond yields rose 16 basis points to 9.41 percent today from a post-crisis low of 5.57 percent in September, the relative improvement in yields from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/italy\/\">Italy<\/a>\u00a0to Ireland suggests that the contagion has been contained. The benchmark ASE stock index fell 2.4 percent to 816.46 at 11:42 a.m. in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/athens\/\">Athens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samaras Warns of Euro Exit Risk as Greek Campaign Starts Greece\u2019s political parties embarked on a flash campaign for elections in less than three weeks that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said will determine the fate of the country\u2019s membership in the euro currency area. Samaras used a Jan. 2 speech to warn that victory for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1999,284,285,1167,2236],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antonis-samaras","tag-european-union","tag-eurozone","tag-greece","tag-syriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}