{"id":4721,"date":"2010-03-05T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:01:49","slug":"greeks-deal-with-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/05\/greeks-deal-with-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeks deal with debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4722\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Greece-map-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Greece map\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>Greece has announced austerity measures to rein in the country&#8217;s debt that threatens the European Union&#8217;s\u00a0euro currency &#8212; and in the process triggered public outrage and\u00a0<a title=\"demonstrations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/05\/AR2010030501098.html\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrations<\/a>.\u00a0 International Relations Professor <a title=\"William Keylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/keylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Keylor<\/a>, an authority on U.S.-European relations, says the Greek government seems to playing a game of chicken with the EU.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;By hinting that it might approach the International Monetary Fund for an emergency loan, it is threatening the eurozone with a huge embarrassment if it does not come to Greece&#8217;s aid.\u00a0 No developed country has gone hat in hand to the IMF since Britain had to do so thirty four years ago.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact William Keylor, 617-358-0197, <a href=\"mailto:wrkeylor@bu.edu\">wrkeylor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has announced austerity measures to rein in the country&#8217;s debt that threatens the European Union&#8217;s\u00a0euro currency &#8212; and in the process triggered public outrage and\u00a0demonstrations.\u00a0 International Relations Professor William Keylor, an authority on U.S.-European relations, says the Greek government seems to playing a game of chicken with the EU. &#8220;By hinting that it might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2472,2319,1453,2470,2471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}