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of the stake in HELPE is now almost 1.2 billion euros, according to Refinitiv’s Eikon data. A source had previously said it expected final bids for the stake “toward the end of November,” but two sources close to the sale said the new deadline was in January. The state has been awaiting a decision by the securities regulator on whether the prospective buyer will have to make a mandatory offer to buy the remaining shares. Charalampos Gotsis, chairman of the regulator Hellenic Capital Market Commission, told Reuters the commission had decided last week that the winner would not have to make a mandatory offer. yesterday. Credit extended to the government fell 5.6 percent after decreasing by 7.1 percent in August, the central bank said. Lending to businesses and households declined 1.3 percent after a 1.5 percent drop in the previous month.

Turkey has withdrawn from a two-day summit about Libya that is being held in Italy with “deep disappointment,” Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters yesterday, objecting to what he said was Ankara’s exclusion from some of the talks. “Any meeting which excludes Turkey would prove to be counterproductive for the solution of this problem,” Oktay said. He was speaking from Italy’s Palermo, where a two-day Libya summit is being held to discuss a UN peace plan to stabilize the North African country, in turmoil since 2011.