International financial markets are watching closely as Greece's government tests the water by borrowing up to 2.5 billion euros.

It does not need that money to do things like pay civil servants' wages or old age pensions, as currently European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout loans are covering those outgoings.

But Athens wants to prove that investors have enough confidence in the country's future to loan it money.

Greece currently owes 321.5 billion euros - a whacking 175 perc...
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