Nine of the 14 blacklisted airlines published by France and Belgium on Monday are based in Africa, while two are based in eastern Europe. Belgium and France took the decision to publish their blacklists after four airline crashes in August–including the Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens that killed 121 people–led to calls from

A sharp increase in first half losses in Greece nearly wiped off the satisfactory increase in profits from the Cyprus operations of Hellenic Bank Group (HB) on the back of a massive increase in bad debt provisions, forcing the bank to report a substantial decline in first half profits. The Greek operations of Hellenic Bank