The EBRD has already participated in the recapitalisation of the four significant Greek banks in late 2015, which shows its confidence in the prospects of the entire Greek banking sector, and has invested overall around € million in Greece.
Preliminary headline inflation registered –0,3 percentage points in February 2015, which is marginally better than the –0,6 percentage points reported for January, due to the lower energy prices, thus raising the spectre of deflation. The European Central Bank announced in January 2015 that it would embark on an open-ended monthly asset purchase programme of some € trillion in total.