The overall share of Greek issuance premiums is 2.2% of GDP against a European average of 7.69%. Customers are increasingly drifting towards bank teller’s desks and the Internet at the expense of insurance companies and independent agents.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is facing difficult negotiations on his country’s exit from the Memorandum and its sovereign debt: these are key issues for the presidential elections as well as for possible early parliamentary elections.