Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used his visit to the United Kingdom on Monday to deliver two carefully calibrated messages, tailored to different audiences but united by a common theme: Greece’s transformation from crisis‑ridden outlier to stable, reform‑driven European partner.
Euro area insurers manage several trillion euro in assets and take a long-term investment perspective. They hold more alternative and less liquid assets than in the past, partly resulting from the long period of low interest rates until 2022. As a result, their balance sheets have become less liquid and more sensitive to market conditions overall. Meanwhile their holdings of sovereign bonds show significant home bias, which may have even increased with quantitative easing policies.
Euro area insurers manage several trillion euro in assets and take a long-term investment perspective. They hold more alternative and less liquid assets than in the past, partly resulting from the long period of low interest rates until 2022. As a result, their balance sheets have become less liquid and more sensitive to market conditions overall. Meanwhile their holdings of sovereign bonds show significant home bias, which may have even increased with quantitative easing policies.
City minister welcomes move to take lenders off ‘naughty step’
The final 2026 budget submitted to Parliament in November reaffirmed Greece’s strong fiscal performance and the sustained trajectory of declining debt.
Degraded ecosystems undermine productivity, disrupt supply chains and heighten vulnerability to shocks, creating risks for the real economy and the financial sector. Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation also pose a growing risk to price stability, with increasing evidence that ecosystem shocks contribute to inflationary pressures in the euro area.
Bigger than expected rise takes average property cost to £272,998
Our Financial Policy Committee (FPC) meets to identify risks to financial stability and agree policy actions aimed at safeguarding the resilience of the UK financial system.
FTSE 100 non-executive fees trail inflation by almost 12% over the past decade, new research finds
Country’s central bank says it owns the reserves to ‘boost confidence’ in its financial system and in the euro
