The goal is to cut Athens鈥� debt to 120.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020, down from last year鈥檚 160 percent. Greece agreed to cuts in pensions, the minimum wage, healthcare, defense spending, and public sector jobs , Bloomberg reports. All of that will come on top of unemployment of more than 20 percent.
With no indication of growth on Greece鈥檚 horizon, reducing the country鈥檚 debt will be painful 鈥� and will have to be done mostly by cutting spending, since GDP is unlikely to rise.
And with national elections scheduled for April, the agreement could be in danger. The leaders of Greece鈥檚 two largest opposition parties agreed ahead of the deal to stand by whatever terms were reached, but parties opposed to the terms of the bailout , according to the Associated Press.
