e.u. an international monetary fund research saved over three hundred billion euros but the crisis has affected the country's economy dramatically now leading over four hundred thousand people leave the country pensions have been drastically cut and taxes raised athens is expected to be repaying the bailout loans until twenty sixty the crisis has provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. it reached its peak back in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded austerity measures to deal with the debt most greeks voted against those measures in a referendum yet the government was pressured by the e.u. into implementing them as results the e.u. approved a key eighty six billion euro tranche of aid the bailouts triggered numerous protests in greece the is. was. was. was. was i was i. was. was an alternative wouldn't be. drastic reduction of the debt to make it sustainable in two thousand and ten it wouldn't require a lot of restructuring in order to make the deck sustainable debt but at that time neither europe nor the united states or the world economy was ready to deal with their debts effec