A populist government prone to infighting and at constant odds with the European Union is what makes the current situation so dicey. It needs to sell more than 400 billion euros a year to keep the show on the road, a situation that forces domestic banks to buy even more debt.
The connection between a weak economy and weak banks, many of which are still vulnerable despite three years of declines in bad loans, has a name: the doom loop.
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