Coronavirus derails southern Europe's clean-up from the last crisis
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MILAN/ATHENS/LONDON (Reuters) - This year was meant to mark a turning point for Greek and Italian banks as they finally laid the ghosts of the financial crisis to rest. Then the coronavirus struck.Greek banks had been lining up buyers for billions of euros of bad debt to free up their balance sheets while Italian banks had just sold risky bonds at record-low yields as investors rewarded them for offloading many of their problem loans.But as the pandemic sends economies into free fall, the..