Greece’s Plan to Return to Markets While Viable Faces Risks

ATHENS, GREECE - JULY 20: People wait to enter a bank branch as Greek banks reopened on Monday morning after three weeks of closure on July 20, 2015 in Athens, Greece. Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

Greece is planning a return to the markets in a bid to regain its status as a “normal” country.

If the government can announce by the end of the year its program for tapping the markets in 2019 and repeat this exercise each year for the following 12 months, the plan will have worked, an official familiar with the matter said.