{"id":541976,"date":"2010-04-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/breaking-greece-prime-minister-says-hell-ask-the-imf-for-help-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-23T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T10:00:00","slug":"breaking-greece-prime-minister-says-hell-ask-the-imf-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541976","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Greece Prime Minister Says He&#8217;ll Ask The IMF For Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b952c867f8b9a547e080000\/papandreou.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"papandreou\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg Radio, Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou has confirmed that he&#8217;ll formally ask for the latest $45 billion aid package from the IMF and Europe later today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>ATHENS, Greece (AP) &#8212; Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has called for the activation of a joint eurozone-International Monetary Fund financial rescue to pull his country out of a major debt crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Papandreou, speaking from the remote Aegean island of Kastelorizo, said he had asked Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou to make a formal request for the plan&#8217;s activation.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minsiter says the markets have not responded positively to Greece&#8217;s austerity measures, and that it is now a &#8220;national and pressing necessity&#8221; to call for the aid.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue package will provide Greece with loans from other eurozone countries to the tune of euro30 billion ($40 billion) at interest rates of about 5 percent, and about euro10 billion from the IMF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/breaking-greece-prime-minister-says-hell-ask-the-imf-for-help-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/kRs-P86nQ1o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bloomberg Radio, Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou has confirmed that he&#8217;ll formally ask for the latest $45 billion aid package from the IMF and Europe later today. &#8212; ATHENS, Greece (AP) &#8212; Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has called for the activation of a joint eurozone-International Monetary Fund financial rescue to pull his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}