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EVIDENCE FILE · SOVEREIGN · AS OF 2025-12-31

The evidence behind Greece

Every figure below carries the authority that published it and the date it was observed. Nothing on this page is typed; it is read out of the kernel when you load it, which is why it cannot say something the instrument does not.

01

The assertion

What binds first, when it binds, and what happens at zero. A breach is stated as a breach rather than as a deadline of zero days: they are different facts and reading one as the other is how a country already past a threshold gets filed behind one approaching it.

BINDING CONSTRAINT

16014days

REFINANCING · binds on 2070-08-17

The whole standing stock has turned over at prevailing yields; the interest bill converges on the market rate.

EVIDENCE: STRUCTURAL — derived from published figures by an accounting identity

ALREADY PAST A THRESHOLD

None. Every measured primitive still has headroom.

02

Every figure it rests on

10 inputs across 4 primitives. The evidence tier is not a confidence score — it says how the figure came to exist, and the weakest tier in a chain sets the tier of everything downstream of it.

PRIMITIVEINPUTVALUESOURCEOBSERVEDTIER
REFINANCINGdebt143.5pct_gdpeurostat:gov_10q_ggdebt/GD2026-03-31STRUCTURAL
REFINANCINGshortTerm3.2pct_gdpeurostat:F31+F412026-03-31STRUCTURAL
REFINANCINGbalance1.7pct_gdpeurostat:gov_10dd_edpt1/B92025-12-31STRUCTURAL
REFINANCINGinterestPaid3.2pct_gdpeurostat:gov_10dd_edpt1/D41PAY2025-12-31STRUCTURAL
REFINANCINGmarketYield4.22pctecb:IRS/M.GR.L.L40.CI.0000.EUR.N.Z2026-09-30STRUCTURAL
DEPENDENCIESforeignBankClaimsUsdMillions40,413.01USD mnbis:WS_CBS_PUB/Q.S..4R.U.C.A.A.TO1.A.GR2026-03-31IDENTIFIED
DEPENDENCIESeffectiveCreditors6.17countbis:WS_CBS_PUB/Q.S..4R.U.C.A.A.TO1.A.GR2026-03-31IDENTIFIED
DEPENDENCIESlargestCreditorShare29.75pctbis:WS_CBS_PUB/Q.S..4R.U.C.A.A.TO1.A.GR2026-03-31IDENTIFIED
RESPONSEdebt143.5pct_gdpeurostat:gov_10q_ggdebt/GD2026-03-31STRUCTURAL
RESPONSEannualChange-9.4pp_per_yeareurostat:gov_10q_ggdebt/GD 2025-Q1→2026-Q12026-03-31STRUCTURAL
  • STRUCTURAL — derived from published figures by an accounting identity
  • IDENTIFIED — read directly from the publishing authority
03

What would prove it wrong

A claim that cannot be wrong cannot be evidence. This one names the date it settles, the source that settles it, and the observation that would refute it — fixed before the outcome exists, not chosen after.

Greece exhausts its refinancing headroom on or before 2070-08-17 (16013.9 days) unless new resources arrive. Consequence: The whole standing stock has turned over at prevailing yields; the interest bill converges on the market rate.

SETTLES ON
2070-08-17
SETTLED BY
eurostat:gov_10dd_edpt1
REFUTED IF
the buffer behind REFINANCING is observed at or above its 2025-12-31 level on 2070-08-17, measured from eurostat:gov_10dd_edpt1
04

What is not measured, and why

Three different absences, kept apart. A primitive nobody has published, a primitive that was measured and does not count down, and a primitive comfortable enough that no date exists are three states — and reporting them as one is how a gap gets read as safety.

NOTHING PUBLISHED

  • LIQUIDITY

No authority publishes the figure. Absent, not assumed comfortable.

MEASURED, NOT A DURATION

  • DEPENDENCIES

Read and real, but not a countdown. There is no rate at which a concentration drains, and forcing one would need a rollover assumption nobody publishes.

MEASURED, NOT BINDING

  • RESPONSE

Measured and comfortable on the current trend, so no date exists.

05

Who is positioned to reach it

Foreign bank claims on this government, from the BIS consolidated banking statistics. The share is of the published all-reporters total, so these do not add to one and are not meant to: the remainder is the systems that report only in aggregate.

  • 57.0%United States banking system$4.5bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
  • 15.8%French banking system$1.2bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
  • 14.4%German banking system$1.1bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
  • 9.7%Italian banking system$0.8bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
  • 1.7%Japanese banking system$0.1bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
  • 0.6%Spanish banking system$0.0bn · 2026-03-31 · IDENTIFIED
06

Do not take the sources on trust — do the work again

Citing a source is not evidence. The number beside the citation is still ours, computed by our code, and checking it means trusting that code. The audit word for what actually settles this is re-performance: fetch the original record yourself, redo the arithmetic, and see whether you land on the same figure.

There is a script in the repository that does exactly that, and the discipline that makes it worth anything is that it shares nothing with the platform: it imports no code from the application, goes to each authority over its own public API with no key and no account, and is not told what to expect. If it reused our fetchers it would re-perform our bug rather than the figure, and would agree with us for the wrong reason.

npx tsx scripts/reperform.mts greece

Or skip us entirely and open the authorities directly. These are the exact requests the figures in section 02 come from.

  • eurostat:gov_10q_ggdebt
  • eurostat:F31+F41
  • eurostat:gov_10dd_edpt1
  • ecb:IRS
  • bis:WS_CBS_PUB

A disagreement inside the last printed digit is rounding; anything wider is a finding, and the script prints both values rather than telling you the difference is small.

07

Which code produced this

The last link, and the one that makes the others checkable. The service reports the commit it was built from and a digest computed over the files on disk; clone the repository at that commit, recompute, and the two match or they do not.

  • /api/provenanceThe commit, the digest, and the recipe for recomputing it.
  • /api/integrityThe internal audit, run every thirty minutes, published whatever it says.
  • /api/prime/entity/greeceThis page as JSON, from the same call that rendered it.
  • /mapEverything this platform does, and which of it is load-bearing.

Other entities: romania, italy, germany, france, spain, hungary, poland, czechia, bulgaria.

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