One of the oldest cities in the world, Athens is the capital of Ancient and modern Greece and is considered the birthplace of Western civilisation.
These are euros owed to the Bundesbank by the central banks of the economies where there has been the greatest capital flight, names those of Greece, Italy and Spain.
Hopes for a flood of Chinese capital into Greece have not yet materialised.
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And on top of blocking bank withdrawals and imposing capital controls Greece would also face the massive problems of introducing a new currency in the form of new coins and notes and procedures.
Banks would collapse and capital flee, and many of Greece's companies, unable to pay their euro-denominated bills, would go bankrupt.
At that point, the Bank of Greece would have to impose capital controls, and everybody who has euros in a Greek bank account would have to keep them there and see them devalued on euro exit.
And, of course, in Greece and Portugal the capital deficits would look very large indeed.
Greece initially benefitted from unrestricted flows of outside capital and wages soared.
After all, haven't we been receiving all these "safe haven" capital flows, every time the financial markets panic about the creditworthiness of Greece, Italy or the rest?
In 2000 Morgan Stanley Capital International, which tracks global stock markets via hundreds of indexes, promoted Greece out of the emerging-market category.
For example, as the risk that Greece would leave the euro went up, the amount of capital leaving the country increased and the economic activity declined.
NPLs account for an enormous 264 percent of tier 1 capital a level so high that not even basket case Greece, at 217 percent, can compare.
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Out Mr Ocalan flew to the residence of the Greek ambassador in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on the understanding that Greece would try to persuade an African country perhaps South Africa to take him in.
Russia is ready to do its part in helping bail out Europe, including funneling more capital into the European Financial Stability Facility which was created in May of 2010 to keep Greece from going belly up.
For as long as the threat of a euro exit hangs over Greece, credit will be scarce, foreign capital will stay away and investment will stall.
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Britain may find itself being ordered by a European banking regulator to inject yet more capital into the bank, despite its negligible exposure to Greece and other peripheral countries, because of stress tests designed to shore up the financial system in the euro-zone.
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That would give them leverage over the government that is formed after Greece's elections, which would have to use promissory notes in lieu of capital.
With Greece on its way to see debt exceed 160% of GDP, a return to capital markets is practically impossible.
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Beginning during the 1990s, the OECD has attacked low-tax jurisdiction for the supposed crime of having good tax laws that attract jobs and capital from high-tax nations such as France and Greece.
Auctions by Greece and Portugal have been successful in raising capital, although Portugal had to pay toward the top end of the scale.
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