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Fitch Ratings announced late on Friday that it has upgraded Greece's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'BBB' from 'BBB-', keeping its outlook stable.
The credit rating agency expects "debt to continue declining rapidly in the medium term, approaching 120% by 2030 under our baseline, supported by 4% nominal GDP growth and primary surpluses of 3.5% of GDP beyond 2027. Cash buffers remain at record high of around 18% of GDP, allowing early repayment of bilateral bonds and covering maturities over the next three years".

📚📚A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern #poets, "Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography" by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) looks closely at #Cavafy’s artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.

Reading Greece spoke to Peter Jeffreys Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis about their decision to write a new biography of Cavafy, the challenges they faced in reconstructing his life, how they contextualized the themes he delved into within his modern cosmopolitan setting, as well as how their biography situates Cavafy in a global literary context.

The translator of the book in Greek (Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο - Ekdoseis Metaixmio, 2025),, Mihalis Makropoulos, also spoke to Reading Greece about the challenging aspects of translating the book, how he navigated translating culturally specific references, especially those rooted in Hellenistic, Byzantine, or colonial Alexandria contexts, and whether he expects that this biography will shed new light on the life and work of Cavafy.

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Eva Geraki’s paintings explore dreamlike landscapes, featuring luminous colors that intertwine with nature. She shares her insights on the transformation of space, time, and perception.