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326: 76:, a commission whose goal was reporting Greece's capability of repaying the debt of 1833. This commission, by the intervention of Russia, did not have the role of controlling the economy and ensuring payments; it was restricted to an advisory role. The result from the work of this commission was the payment of an instalment amounting to 900,000 French francs in 1860. 118:
declared bankruptcy. Partial control, which was typical and insubstantial, was imposed by the country's creditors without having the power to interfere in the Greek public finances. The Greek government, over half of whose revenue went in 1893 to service loans, was in addition beset by clientelism.
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bankrupted in 1869 in a similar economic situation. In order to collect its debts, the Commission Financière Internationale was established in the country by its creditors: France, UK and Italy. This committee was responsible for the management of state finances to ensure the repayment of Tunisian
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Mortgaging tax incomes to repay the loans. To do that, the Commission acquired regular sources of income and assessed the state agencies for their efficiency and their tax collecting ability. The Commission collected the incomes from the monopolies of salt, oil, matches, playing cards, cigarette
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Issuing a war reparations loan and an "economic loan". A guaranteed loan of 151,300,000 French francs was given to Greece by the Great Powers. The loan was used to pay 93,900,000 francs to the Ottoman Empire as war reparations, the current state debt of 31,400,000 francs, the 1897 deficit of
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The negotiations led to the imposition of the International Financial Control for the financial restructuring of Greece and the subsequent guarantee that the country would be able to pay back its loans, old and new.
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98:(OPDA), a debt collecting organization with 5,000 employees. OPDA had more than twenty offices in the provinces of the empire, from 559: 126:. Greece was in a difficult position, with its armed forces unable to stop the advance of the Turkish army, which had captured 389:"How Did Creditors Enforce Sovereign Debt Contracts? International Financial Control during the Classical Gold Standard Era" 276:[The imposition of the International Financial Control] (in Greek). Greece: Rizospastis. 6 December 1996. p. 12 119:
Several years of fruitless negotiations followed. The first modern Olympic Games (held in 1896) increased state expenses.
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was forced to negotiate additional loans with the country's creditors, with the disadvantageous precedent of bankruptcy.
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in C Paulus (Ed), "Sovereign Default – Do We Need a Legal Procedure?" (C.H. Beck/Hart: May 2014)
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Dette publique de la Grèce: historique, lois, décrets, conventions, règlements, protocoles, etc
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The IFC remained in Athens until 1936. It played a key role in the administration of the
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lemonde.fr: "Quand la France et l’Allemagne mirent la Grèce sous tutelle… en 1898"
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to its creditors. It is often referred to in Greece as the instrument of
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telegraph.co.uk: "Greece is being treated like a hostile occupied state"
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Supervision of the public finances of Greece imposed by European powers
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22,500,000 francs and the loan issuing expenses of 3,500,000 francs.
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Echoes of History: The International Financial Commission in Greece
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The negotiations with the creditors' representatives (UK, France,
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The situation changed when Greece clashed with Turkey during the
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Bankruptcy of Greece and defeat in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897
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defaulted similarly in 1875 and on 20 December 1881, with the
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Between 1857 and 1859, the UK, France and Russia created the
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Greece. Commission financière internationale (1905).
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lending in the 1920s under the aegis of the League's
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Index

Greek Loan Act 1898
French
sovereign debt
Kingdom of Greece
Greek
International Financial Commission of Inquiry
Ottoman Tunisia
Ottoman Empire
Decree of Muharram
Ottoman Public Debt Administration
Yemen
Thessaloniki
Charilaos Trikoupis
Greco-Turkish War of 1897
Thessaly
Central Greece
Treaty of Constantinople
Ottoman liras
Alexandros Zaimis
Austria-Hungary
German Empire
Naxos emery
Port of Piraeus
Debt restructuring
League of Nations
Economic and Financial Organization
Caisse de la Dette
Khedivate of Egypt
Ottoman Public Debt Administration
Ottoman Empire

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