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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
and an increase in the excise tax on energy fuel, cigarettes and tobacco. The liberalisation of the NPL... and a notable drop in loan provisions. Asset quality showed encouraging trends, with NPL formation markedly...-year NPL stock to fall below last year’s level, while anticipating it will also turn profitable
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge
PoliticsForeign Policymemoranda with the Tripoli-based government in Libya. Officials in Athens stress, however... following Turkey's intervention in Libya, the message to Ankara in the joint statement they issued... in Libya presents a dangerous threat to wider regional stability.” The statement also noted
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Quiet summer in Greek-Turkish relations not seen lasting
PoliticsForeign Policy, in the upcoming EU Summit. Libya Libya is another issue that is of major concern to Greek diplomats. Libya’s Prime.... Even though the meeting focused more on Turkey’s economic “return” to Libya for the country’s... from the international community. The political situation in Libya will remain fluid and it is quite
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policycountries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from
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NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system
Agorato focus on some discrepancies related to the NPL figures released by the BoG and the troika institutions so far in 2014. In its interim Monetary Policy report, the Bank of Greece revealed that the NPL... Adjustment Program, the European Commission (EC) came up with a higher number of the total NPL ratio
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How Greek banks were left on the brink
Agora. Non-performing loan (NPL) formation went on an upward trend again after a short-lived slowdown... delayed their loan servicing payments also waiting for an NPL settlement scheme promised by the new... - an increase of 1.5 billion within Q1. The NPL ratio rose by around 0.4 percentage points (pp) to 35.8
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Greece reignites energy alliance talks with Israel and Cyprus amid US interest
PoliticsForeign Policyof President Trump, diplomatic sources acknowledge. Libya One country that is at the centre of interest for both Athens and Washington is Libya. The US is already including the North African country in a 4+1..., Turkey and Libya, aiming at resolving maritime disputes and, more specifically, the delimitation
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Net profit of 87 mln for NBG in Q1
EconomyBanking-performing loan (NPL) ratio rose to 33.6 percent in Q1 from 33.1 percent in Q4, while the NPL coverage ratio..., the NPL ratio increased to 34.7 percent with the NPL formation rising to 127 million in Q1 from 86 million in Q4, while the NPL coverage ratio slipped to 76.5 percent. The breakdown of the Greek NPL figure
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Greek primary budget surplus eases to 1.95 bln on back of lower revenues in Aug
Economyrevenue targets included revenues of 884 million euros from the first two instalments of the new
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