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Papandreou requests EU-IMF bailout for Greece

On 23 April 2010 Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou formally requested activation of the EU-IMF rescue mechanism to pull Greece out of its debt crisis. The plan offered loans from eurozone partners at about five percent interest plus a smaller IMF share, and led to the first Greek bailout in May 2010.

George Papandreou (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 23 April 2010 Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou formally requested activation of the EU-IMF rescue mechanism to pull Greece out of its debt crisis. The plan offered loans from eurozone partners at about five percent interest plus a smaller IMF share, and led to the first Greek bailout in May 2010.

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  • George Papandreou

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    Papandreou requests EU-IMF bailout for Greece. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.cbc.ca — sourcecbc.ca · verified
  2. 2.rferl.org — sourcerferl.org · verified
  3. 3.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: papandreou+imf · verified
  4. 4.latimes.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: papandreou+imf · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Papandreou requests EU-IMF bailout for Greece. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/papandreou-requests-bailout-2010-04-23

https://factrail.ai/facts/papandreou-requests-bailout-2010-04-23

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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