Optimism that NPL meeting may put pressure on strategic defaulters

16-3-2018 Business Mail BusinessMail Cool

Optimism that NPL meeting may put pressure on...

By Stelios Orphanides

President Nicos Anastasiades’s meeting with party leaders at the presidential palace on Thursday to discuss ways to tackle non-performing loans may have not produced concrete results, but it showed that politicians are beginning to realise the urgency of going after strategic defaulters, a source said.

“There was no sudden change of attitude as they know that there is a problem,” a source familiar with Thursday’s talks who spoke on condition of anonymity said in an interview.

Thursday’s meeting, proposed by Diko chairman and failed...

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