Greece has three weeks to deal with ‘potentially disastrous’ debt

Greece’s embattled government has three weeks to break the deadlock in increasingly difficult talks with creditors or risk the country’s debt crisis resurfacing with renewed vigour.
Faced with the dilemma of agreeing to additional austerity or calling fresh elections, prime minister Alexis Tsipras was weighing his options at the weekend. Fears of further uncertainty in Europe’s weakest member state mounted as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that Greece’s debt load could become ‘explosive’ by 2030.
‘It is critical that a compromise is found,’ said Aristides Hatzis, professor of law and economics at the university of Athens, noting that a slew of elections across Europe would only make Greece’s predicament worse.
‘If these negotiations are not wrapped up by 20 February we could be looking at potentially disastrous political turmoil, which would bring back the scenario of Grexit with a vengeance.’

This post was published at The Guardian