Once Europe’s Headache, Greece Finds Its Feet

Ahead of elections, doubts on country’s euro membership have gone away

Greek tourism is rebounding from the pandemic. louisa gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

ATHENS—Greece’s economy nearly broke the euro last decade. Now it is one of the fastest-growing in Europe’s common-currency zone. 

Nobody frets about Grexit any more in Greece’s once-again bustling capital city. In streets that were previously blighted by closed storefronts, locals complain about rising rents and the spread of Airbnb apartments. 

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