Italy shows biggest drop in NPLs - EC (2)

(ANSA) - Brussels, march 14 - Italy showed the biggest drop in non-performing loans in the EU in the third quarter of last year, falling from 16.1% of the total of Italian loans a year earlier to 12. 1%, the European Commission said Wednesday.
    Overall, in the EU, bad loans fell to 4.4% of the total of loans in the third quarter of 2017, the EC said.