Syriza party wins election in Greece - reactions re Greek debt

Greek election: Reaction to Syriza's victory - live updates  [Telegraph, Jan 26 2015]

Eurogroup 

Arrival and doorstep Eurogroup President (Dijsselbloem) [europa.eu, video, Jan 26 2015] [Dutch & English]

#Eurogroup - Doorstep #DE #Schäuble @BMF_Bund : "We respect the #Greek elections result" http://t.co/mdCEBzUsAo pic.twitter.com/95PoQgueyA
— EU Council TV News (@EUCouncilTVNews) January 26, 2015

ECB

ECB cannot agree to debt relief for Greece, board member says  [Ekathimerini, Jan 26 2015]

IMF 

IMF set to continue support Greece after election [France24, Jan 26 2015]

EU 

Griechenland-Kompromiss: Juncker will die Troika abschaffen [Handelsblatt, Feb 1 2015]

EU's Moscovici : 'Place of Greece is in the eurozone' [interview,BBC,video, Jan 31 2015]

@JunckerEU sieht keinen Handlungsbedarf für einen griechischen Schuldenschnitt http://t.co/psTU26Giqa via @tagesschau
— Lukas Sustala (@LukasSustala) January 26, 2015

#Juncker tells ARD: no Greek haircut currently on the radar.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) January 26, 2015

#EC Commissioner @pierremoscovici: We want #Greece to be able to repay debts. #economy #Eurogroup
— Manos Giakoumis (@ManosGiakoumis) January 26, 2015

ESM/EFSF

#ESM #Regling: #EFSF is by far the largest creditor of Greece w/ loans maturities 32.4 y. We are a long-term partner of Greece
— ESM (@ESM_Press) January 26, 2015

#ESM #Regling: I take note of democratic election result in #Greece & look forward to engage constructively with new Greek government
— ESM (@ESM_Press) January 26, 2015

Germany

Buba's Nagel: End to #Greece's Troika aid programme would have "fatal consequences" for the country's fin system. https://t.co/2ruSxxplza
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 27, 2015

#greece @bbcnewshour Greek voters must pay their debts to get further bailout money http://t.co/fzpl2xEvoT @BBCTimFranks
— Dr. Michael Fuchs (@drmfuchs) January 27, 2015

German govt: #Greece must keep reform promises. Says Berlin will cooperate w/ next Greek govt. Germany still opposes greek debt relief. (DJ)
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 26, 2015

Germany: no debt haircut for Greece but bailout extension an option http://t.co/FPhIjKOzEo
— JC Kommer (@Alea_) January 26, 2015

Belgium

Belgian Fin Min @jvanovertveldt ahead of #eurogroup: "[Troika] agreements should absolutely be respected" http://t.co/eIdcYZJtau #Greece
— Pieter Cleppe (@pietercleppe) January 26, 2015

Ireland

Noonan on Greek debt restructuring (rather than cancellation) :'I was looking at the numbers this morning and there is scope'
— Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) January 26, 2015

Finland 

YLE News: PM Stubb: No Greek debt writeoffs; open to extension talks http://t.co/SYmPL5WVqG
— NewsFromFinland (@NewsFromFinland) January 26, 2015

Portugal 

Portuguese strictly against a Greek debt cut  [DW, Feb 3 2015]


Spain 
Südeuropas Regierungen gegen Schuldenschnitt  [FAZ, Feb 1 2015]

Spanish minister rejects easing debt rules for Greece http://t.co/JfQPoVYcfL pic.twitter.com/xnp19FIyID
— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) February 2, 2015

Malta

Malta does not agree with Greek debt write-off http://t.co/TNlo3bZ9n9 pic.twitter.com/UFxYxhBmRH
— Times of Malta (@TheTimesofMalta) January 26, 2015

Estonia 

Estonian prime minister: Greece must repay loans | News | ERR http://t.co/XbHUF7iLEG
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) January 27, 2015

Individuals 

Reformkurz fortsetzen ist einziger Weg für #Griechenland und #Syriza: http://t.co/Ur2ceqi76V
— Marcel Fratzscher (@MFratzscher) January 27, 2015

Hold the celebrations: Greece is still doomed  [Telegraph, Jan 27 2015]


IW-Chef Hüther fordert Reformen "Sehe keinen Grund für Schuldenschnitt"  [N-TV, Jan 27 2015]

Coming up fmr Italian PM @SenatoreMonti sys troika's demands on Greece wr too tough. "The policies were not the appropriate ones" #newsnight
— Ian Katz (@iankatz1000) January 26, 2015

@NYTimeskrugman strongly in favor of @tsipras_eu and #Greek debt restructuring, pro growth policies http://t.co/ByJ6rbui5k
— Kostas Karkagiannis (@KKarkagiannis) January 26, 2015

Expert: Finland won’t lose money if it agrees to extend Greek debt  [Yle, Jan 26 2015]

Economist widely tipped to be Greece's next finance minister, @yanisvaroufakis, speaks to RTE's @morningireland http://t.co/gplbs9FGM2
— Damian Mac Con Uladh (@damomac) January 26, 2015

please note: more reactions from other EZ countries as soon as they become available 

Greece:Latest (2015) debate on possible #Grexit after surveys suggest Syriza win

Facts & opinions  

Greek elections January 25
Greek polls frontrunner says win will start leftist change in Europe [AFP/Yahoo news, Jan 3 2015]
Former Greek PM Papandreou sets up new party, complicating election outlook [Reuters, Jan 2 2015]
Why You Should Care About Greece Again [Businessweek, Jan 2 2015]
As Early Elections Near, Greek Legislators Disband [NYTimes, Dec 31 2014]
In graphics: Greece's snap elections  [The Economist, Dec 30 2014]

'Grexit'
German government denies changing tack on Greece  [AP/Businessweek, Jan 4 2015]
Why Grexit would not help Greece G Wolff, Bruegel, Jan 6 2014]
Austria urges restraint re 'Grexit' debate [FAZ, Jan 6 2015] #
Why the Greek debt crisis stings a little less this time around  [Globe&Mail, Jan 6 2015] 

How Greece might avoid a Grexit  [The Economist, Jan 5 2015]
Germany Does Care About a Greek Exit  [Bloomberg View, Jan 5 2015] 

European Commission:"Eurozone membership irrevocable" [De Morgen, Jan 5 2015] *
Hollande: 'Greece must stick to EU commitments'  [The Local France, Jan 5 2015]
Carsten Schneider(SPD): "A mindless discussion" [DLF,Audio+text, Jan 5 2015] #
Sven Giegold(Greens):"Dangerous meddling in the Greek election campaign" [S G, Jn 5 2015] 
France: It's up to Greece to decide whether to leave euro [AP/Businessweek Jan 5 2015] 

Top economist (Bofinger) of a Greek exit [Die Welt, Jan 4 2015] #
Debt crisis: New debate about 'Grexit' [Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Jan 4 2015] #
Former EU Commissioner Rehn intends to reduce Greek debt burden [Der Spiegel , Jan 4 2015] #
Citi suggestion against looming deflation: ECB should use helicopter money [Der Spiegel, Jan 4 201] #
BUiter: Deflation article in the Lisbon Treaty is a disaster [BNR Radio, Jan 4 2014] *
All eyes on Berlin as ECB readies bond-buying scheme [Reuters, Jan 4 2015]
Germany Mistakenly Believes The Euro Could Survive Greek Exit  [Forbes, Jan 4 2014]
Greek leftist Tsipras says ECB cannot shut Greece out of stimulus  [Reuters, Jan 3 2014]
Germany believes euro zone could cope with Greece exit: report  [Reuters, Jan 3 2015]
The Cost of a Grexit  [Observing Greece (blog), Jan 4 2015]
Greek euro exit would be ‘Lehman Brothers squared’: economist [marketwatch, Jan 3 2015]
Yanis Varoufakis: Greek and European Prospects for 2015  [Naked Capitalism (blog), Jan 2 2015]

Fickle. Just 9mths ago, markets snap up €3bn in Greek 5-yr bonds at 4.95%. Now they figure the right number is >11%. pic.twitter.com/fEfF2BGlZ0
— Alessandro Leipold (@ALeipold) January 6, 2015

#DirectPR @fhollande "C'est à la Grèce seule de décider de son appartenance à la zone euro. Les Grecs sont libres de choisir leur destin."
— Élysée (@Elysee) January 5, 2015

[#Direct] Suivez l'interview du président @fhollande sur @FranceInter jusqu'à 9h http://t.co/xNTDhqj1i0 #DirectPR pic.twitter.com/SWBZiilhlA
— Élysée (@Elysee) January 5, 2015

          EU-Kommission zu #grexit: "Eurozonen-Mitgliedschaft ist unwiderruflich."

— Stefan Leifert (@StefanLeifert) January 5, 2015

Finns helped Greece w/ billions even as we had to cut own services & borrow bns. Was the right thing to do. GR not paying back wouldn't be.
— Pasi Rajala (@pasiraj) January 5, 2015

Don't kid yourselves that EZ can easily limit contagion from Greece. Same view was adopted in late '09: six months later it was proved wrong
— Stephen King (@KingEconomist) January 5, 2015

„Es macht keinen Sinn, die Nervosität durch Gerede zu verstärken.“ W. Schäuble zu Griechenland/Euro September 2011 im @zdf #Erinnerungstweet
— ThomasWalde (@ThomasWalde) January 5, 2015

Chicken game 101: Say you don't fear the cliff. But #Grexit cliff is high. With first exit euro would be turned into a mere fixed FX regime.
— Henrik Enderlein (@henrikenderlein) January 4, 2015

German anti-euro party AfD welcomes Merkel's change of heart about #grexit, DPA reports
— Pieter Cleppe (@pietercleppe) January 4, 2015

. @noahbarkin @COdendahl : #ECB QE would indeed be much less effective if purchases stay with national central banks!http://t.co/8qseMHdC1o
— Marcel Fratzscher (@MFratzscher) January 4, 2015

74% of Greeks think the country should stay in the #euro, whatever the cost http://t.co/9MMWIWDpqo /via @katie_martin_FX #Greece
— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) January 4, 2015

QE not a good idea for the ECB. But if ECB were to decide for QE, it should also buy Greek government bonds, should not it?
— lex hoogduin (@lexhoogduin) January 4, 2015

@JuleHinrichs Agree. Game of chicken once again. Risk that an accident may happen. And discussion about Greece does not help recovery.
— lex hoogduin (@lexhoogduin) January 4, 2015

1) Interesting euro-Jan w/ Greek vote 3 days after ECB. If QE then, let down likely. See eg @Frances_Coppola at http://t.co/gKXDo4csqw
— George Magnus (@georgemagnus1) January 4, 2015

Germany "believes EZ could cope with #Grexit"? I don't think it does. But it surely is a great way to scare Greek voters.
— Christian Odendahl (@COdendahl) January 3, 2015

To put it another way. In June 2012, #grexit would have directly cost @ecb €160bn. Now that is €50bn (orange line) pic.twitter.com/znAeaX0fus
— Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) January 3, 2015

Seen as Grexit is a thing people are talking about again, this really is worth reading on the technicalities of that http://t.co/W5Gn3xUPGk
— Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) January 3, 2015

#Griechenland ist Mitglied der #Euro-Zone. Und sollte es bleiben. Jetzt nichts herbei reden, was politisch & wirtschaftlich unklug wäre.
— Michael Roth MdB (@MiRo_SPD) January 3, 2015

Und das ist auch gut so RT @FAZ_NET: Wahlen in #Griechenland: Für #Bundesregierung ist Grexit kein Tabu mehr http://t.co/kWcRdn0em9
— Dr. Michael Fuchs (@drmfuchs) January 3, 2015

Revolt of the debtors in the Eurozone? See my blog: http://t.co/NWLcE1IS6Z
— Paul De Grauwe (@pdegrauwe) January 3, 2015

facts:
German bank exposure to Greece around 23.5 billion euros [Ekathimerini, Jan 5 2015]

Where did all the money go? @YiannisMouzakis explains what happened to troika loans to #Greece http://t.co/zjmSf1vJNb pic.twitter.com/PLKA0cRl17
— MacroPolis (@MacroPolis_gr) January 5, 2015

#Greece 2015 debt maturities: to IMF €1.4B due in March, €2.5B due to the IMF over Q2 and a large 4.2bn GGB payment due to the ECB in July.
— econgirl (@raluca3000) December 29, 2014

market reactions:

Correct: #FTSEMib ends at -4.92%
— Mauro Ippolito (@MauroIppolito) January 5, 2015

RT @ManosGiakoumis: Athens Stock Exchange down 5.3%, below the 800-point mark for the 1st time since Nov 2012, banks -7.2%. #Greece
— Efthimia Efthimiou (@EfiEfthimiou) January 5, 2015

#Greece sell-off continues on #Grexit fears. Stock market index ASE drops almost 4% to lowest level since mid-2013. pic.twitter.com/Oq6rWl6eRm
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 5, 2015

#Greece's 3yr yields rise to 12.18% on #Grexit worries. pic.twitter.com/7vnVJ9Mcvr
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 5, 2015

#Euro Slides to Weakest Since 2006 on #ECB and Greece worries. http://t.co/JPbxUML9GQ pic.twitter.com/9A1yk2SquN
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 5, 2015

useful, related links:
Syriza’s chief economist plots a radical Greek evolution within the eurozone  [Guardian, Dec 23 2014]
Top EU court looks into ECB bond buying [DW, Oct 14 2014]

please note: as always, compilation of links likely to grow in the near future


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