{"id":6546,"date":"2026-05-20T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:14:00","slug":"pppi-public-debt-reduced-to-e400-5-billion-in-the-first-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6546","title":{"rendered":"PPPI: Public Debt reduced to \u20ac400.5 billion in the first quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <b>400.5 billion<\/b> the <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/dimosio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public debt<\/b> of the country at the <b>end of the first quarter<\/b> of 2026 compared to 406.5 billion. EUR 406 million at the end of <b>2025<\/b>, according to data released today by the <b>Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA)<\/b>on its revamped website.<\/p>\n<p>The above figures refer to <b>Public Debt at the central government level,<\/b>in which government bonds purchased by domestic <b>public entities (e.g., insurance funds, hospitals, municipalities) are counted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That is, it refers to the total amount of<b> financial liabilities (loans, bonds, treasury bills)<\/b> directly undertaken by the government through its central bodies.<\/p>\n<p>At the general government level (which excludes <b>intergovernmental debt)<\/b>, public debt fell to 360.5 billion euros from 362.95 billion euros at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Central government <b>Treasury assets<\/b> at the end of March fell to 13.028 billion euros. EUR 16.1 billion at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Note that cash reserves include the <b>cash buffer account<\/b>, the so-called &#8220;hard cushion&#8221; with a balance of EUR 5.4 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The <b>average interest rate<\/b> at which the public debt is serviced was 1.38% and 1.84% if deferred tax is included.<\/p>\n<p>The largest part of the Public Debt represents <b>intergovernmental loans and loans<\/b> received by the country under the <b>Memorandum<\/b> mechanism, which at the end of <b>March<\/b> had been reduced to \u20ac292.2 billion from \u20ac297.45 billion at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;400.5 billion euros, the country&#8217;s public debt fell at the end of the first quarter of 2026, compared with 406.5 billion euros at the end of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6546","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\/6546","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=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}