GREECE
Macro/Political:
- On January 28th Greece will auction 13 Weeks T-Bills with maturity May 4, 2026. The amount to be auctioned is EUR 400mn.
Source: PDMA
CYPRUS
Macro/Political:
- President of Cyprus Mr. Nikos Christodoulides and ExxonMobil Vice President Mr. John Ardill held a meeting on Friday afternoon at the Presidential Palace. Welcoming Mr. Ardill, President Christodoulides said, among other things, that ExxonMobil’s activity in the EEZ of Cyprus is very important and constitutes a vote of confidence. Furthermore, it was noted that the quantity of natural gas in Block 10 of Cyprus’s EEZ is estimated at 6-9 tn cubic feet, and that the main objective is to proceed with the commercialization and production of the discovered natural gas as soon as possible.
Source: Kathimerini
- A poll published by Alpha TV in Cyprus ahead of the parliamentary elections in May shows that the country’s two historically dominant parties, Democratic Rally (DISY) and AKEL, remain in the lead, polling at 22.9% and 21.8% respectively. The far-right party ELAM is consistently in third place across pre-election polls, polling at 16.5% and narrowing the gap with AKEL to just 5.3 percentage points.
In fourth and fifth place are two parties both created last year: ALMA, led by former Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides, polling at 10.5%, and the Direct Democracy party, founded by social media influencer and Member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou, close behind at 10.1%.
Source:AlphaNews
- Data published by the CBC showed that in October 2025 the non-performing loans (aggregate data for all credit institutions) in Cyprus decreased marginally by EUR 78.81mn (m-o-m) to EUR 1,093,720mn (NPL ratio at 2.1%) from EUR 1,172,531mn (NPL ratio at 2.3%) in September 2025.
Source: CBC
- President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, visited Bahrain, marking his first bilateral trip abroad since Cyprus assumed the EU Presidency. During the visit, Mr Christodoulides met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the palace for private talks, followed by expanded discussions between the two countries’ delegations. The two sides signed nine agreements and memoranda of understanding covering military cooperation, collaboration between diplomatic academies, search and rescue training, culture, tourism, and the recognition of higher education qualifications.
Source:PhileNews
