# Professor Nicholas Economides is interviewed about Greece's debt-relief agreement

1 Faculty News June 22, 2018 ![Knowledge at Wharton logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/knowledgeatwharton192x144.jpg?itok=L--sWOiV)>

Excerpt from [Knowledge@Wharton](http://http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/Nicholas_Economides,_Jeromin_Zettelmeyer,_Scheherazade_Rehman,_6-22-18_Knowledge@Wharton.mp3) -- "...It signifies that the European Union has abandoned the goal of Greece returning to the global financial markets which was supposed to be the goal of the programs, instead it's giving cash to Greece to avoid going into the financial markets..."

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