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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-10-19
CONTENTS
[01] Tsipras to have series of meetings within the week
[02] 2,561 refugees rescued between 16 and 19 October
[03] Piraeus Bank re-initiates interbank repo activity
[01] Tsipras to have series of meetings within the week
ANA-MPA -- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has a series of meetings
with foreign officials scheduled on Monday, including Dutch Foreign
Minister Bert Koenders at noon and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh
Shoukry at 15:00.
At 13:15 on Monday afternoon he is to meet Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew and at 20:30 on Monday evening he will attend a dinner
hosted by the foreign ministry at the Acropolis Museum, in honour of the
participants of the International Conference on "Religious and Cultural
Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East" that begins earlier
the same day. Later in the week, the prime minister will also be meeting
French President Francois Hollande during his two-day official visit
to Athens on Thursday and Friday, at the invitation of President of
the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Commenting on the visit,
government sources noted that it was important on many levels and had
great importance for relations between Greece and France. Pointing out
that Hollande had recently made a public statement supporting the Greek
programme and a renegotiation of Greece's debt, during a joint address
to the European Parliament with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the
sources said that Greece considered the French president an important
ally in the negotiations on the debt, which will begin immediately after
the end of the first review of the Greek programme. This expectation
was significantly reinforced by Hollande's planned visit at the head of
a large delegation of government officials and business people, showing
that France is seeking to upgrade its relations with Greece, they added.
In addition to meeting Tsipras and addressing the Greek Parliament on
Friday, Hollande will dine with President Pavlopoulos on the day of his
arrival in Athens on Thursday.
[02] 2,561 refugees rescued between 16 and 19 October
A total of 2,561 refugees were located and rescued by the Coast Guard
and Frontex as well as a private sailing boat in 69 incidents in the sea
regions of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi, Kalolimnos,
Kos and Megisti in the period 16-19 October 2015.
In the same period, a seven year-old boy, an infant, a sixteen year-old
boy and two women drowned.
[03] Piraeus Bank re-initiates interbank repo activity
ANA/MPA---Piraeus Bank on Monday said its customer deposits totaled 38.1
billion euros at the end of September, of which 34.5 billion in Greece.
The bank said that economic and political conditions in Greece showed
signs of stabilization following the agreement with the Institutions in
mid-July, and as of the termination of the bank holiday on 20 July 2015
to-date (mid-October) there have been 0.5 billion euros in net domestic
deposit inflows.
Piraeus Bank said that Eurosystem funding decreased from 37.3 billion
euros at the end of June 2015 to 35.8 bn at the end of September, with
ELA down from 22.2 billion euros at the end of June to 21.2 bn at the
end of September. Gross loans stood at 68.9 billion euros at the end
of September 2015 (of which 63.3 bn in Greece) from 70.0 billion at
the end of June 2015 (of which 64.2 bn in Greece). Further reduction
of time deposit rates in Greece in the third quarter (front book at
110 bps in Sep 2015 against 174 bps in June 2015, monthly averages),
partially contributed to offsetting the ELA burden (in excess of 2 pct
cost including State fee for Pillar 2 as collateral).
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