Greece is part of the Eurozone and uses the Euro as its currency. The Eurozone faced a major crisis when the recession hit in 2009 causing many countries in the Eurozone to have extreme economic difficulties. Greece’s involvement within the Eurozone has continued to have a detrimental impact on the Greek economy as a whole. The UK on the other hand is not part of the Eurozone and has had no such problems because it does not rely on any other countries for economic support. The question to be posed is: Why was being part of the Eurozone so detrimental to the Greek economy and how the UK avoided these issues by using the Great Britain Pound and relying on itself? This question will explain why the unemployment levels in Greece are so much higher than that of the UK and why this is because of the Eurozone.
The problem with Greece is that the country brought this all upon themselves, and many look at Greece, as the reason for the Eurozone crisis in general. The country mismanaged the economy so poorly and relied way to heavily on borrowing against the market, after the initial recession hit. This led to Greece having to borrow money from the European Union and the International Monetary fund in order to keep their economy functioning. This borrowing led to the Greece’s debt rating being down-graded by Standard and Poor to a very poor BB+. This ultimately led to austerity measure being put in place by the Greek government in hopes that it would revamp the economy. These austerity measures led to a second bailout that has had the same minimal effect as the first. Greece’s initial deficit has decreased but GDP continues to go down. This has led to a worsening in the recession that Greece is facing. All of this has led to absurdly high u...
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