Greece faces critical year

LONDON – Greece is facing a critical year that hinges on its three-party ruling coalition sticking together and following the bailout programme agreed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance minister Yannis Stournaras said in the Financial Times yesterday.

“We can make it next year if we can stick to the programme agreed with the EU and IMF. The break would be if the political system finds the situation too difficult to handle,” he said in an interview with the newspaper.

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