American President Donald Trump last week ratified two bills approved by Congress and concerned the defence of the protection of the Hong-Kong demonstrators. These bills, among others, stipulate sanctions against Chinese officials who are involved or will be involved in human rights violations. In addition, reference is made to the imposition of restrictions on the
In the effort of the EU-Commission to improve the performance and gradation of the Greek economy by creating a “safety” net that will allow the Greek banking system to surpass the reef of the stress tests of the ECB, has instructed the Greek government to apply an Asset Protection Scheme to the balance sheets of
In EU member countries (e.g. Denmark, Germany) commercial banks are proceeding to mortgage loans with a negative lending rate. In other words, these banks grant discounted housing loans to borrowers and since the repayment of the mortgage loan not only will not be paid interest, but the borrower will repay capital in total less than
The colossal-scale quantitative easing program-colossal sized purchases of government bonds of Eurozone member countries by the ECB-implemented by the ECB during the mid-2010 have resulted in today’s government bonds of most Euro-area member countries and not only to turn to negative yields. But the most worrying fact is that these negative yields on the Eurozone
