Two senior Greek officials told Reuters <\/b>that Greek public debt<\/b>is estimated to reduce <\/b>this year to about 137% of GDP<\/b>, from 145% in 2025.<\/b> <\/p>\n
The Greece <\/b>is expected to cease to be the most over-indebted<\/b> country in the Eurozone<\/b> by the end of the year, as its public debt is projected to fall below that of Italy<\/b>, according to sources and data from Rome’s new multi-year fiscal plan<\/b>. <\/p>\n
Two senior Greek officials told Reuters that Greek government debt is estimatedto fall to about 137% of GDP this year,<\/strong> down from 145% in 2025. <\/p>\n In contrast, Italy projects its public debt to rise from 137.1%<\/strong> of GDP in 2025 to 138.6% in 2026, according to the Italian finance ministry’s multi-year fiscal plan released on Thursday. <\/p>\n “Greece will no longer be the euro zone’s most indebted country as of this year,” one of the two Greek officials told Reuters. <\/p>\n Greece to be overtaken by Italy as euro zone’s most indebted country in 2026, sources say https:\/\/t.co\/couijkiflx https:\/\/t.co\/couijkiflx <\/p>\n – Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) April 23, 2026 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n The new estimate for Greece’sdebt-to-GDP ratio<\/b> will be included in the country’s new multi-year fiscal plan, which is expected to be submitted to the European Commission by the end of the month.<\/p>\n According to the Italian draft<\/b> budget, Italy’s public debt is expected to remain essentially stable<\/b> at 138.5% of GDP in 2027, before falling to 137.9% in 2028 and 136.3% the following year.<\/p>\n Since 2020, Greek government debt, the highest in the eurozone over the past two decades, has decreased<\/b> by more than 45 percentage points,<\/b> reaching 145% of GDP last year. Over the same period, Italy has reduced its debt by about 17 percentage points.<\/p>\n Greece, which is still recovering from its decade-long financial crisis<\/b> and three bailout programs totaling about 280 billion euros,<\/b> plans to repay early this year loans of about 7 billion euros<\/b> from the first bailout program. <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n Two senior Greek officials told Reuters that Greek government debt is estimated to fall this year to about 137 percent of its current level.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n