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Drachmae: Could bitcoin-inspired currency be the answer to Greece's economic woes?
The bitcoin-like drachmae would be used alongside the euro as an alternative payment method.
Greece rejects international court strategy to retrieve Elgin Marbles
Officials plan to rely on 'diplomatic and political' persuasion.
Greece: Yanis Varoufakis saved by wife in anarchist attack at Athens restaurant
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he was attacked in an Athens restaurant where he was dining with his wife
Edmund Shing: Grexit today, Brexit tomorrow? Ireland's Ryanair and Smurfit Kappa would pay profits
How much longer can the Greeks struggle on before default and the dreaded Grexit?
Josephine Witt: Why I ambushed ECB chief Mario Draghi
I managed to penetrate one of the world's most heavily-guarded organisations yesterday. Here's the story behind it.
Greece to pay €450m loan instalment to IMF as eurozone gives reforms deadline
Athens has been in talks with its eurozone partners and IMF on package of reforms for receiving further aid.
Warren Buffett: Grexit 'may not be bad for euro'
Member countries could ink better agreements about fiscal policy if Greece decides to leave single currency, according to Berkshire Hathaway CEO.
Greek National Day: Greece should understand that the troika is not the Ottoman Empire
Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, unwittingly triggers a new independence movement in Greece.
Greece: ECB boss Mario Draghi gives guarded support and a stern warning
Head of European Central Bank expressed cautious optimism that Greece would benefit from ECB money printing.
William Keegan: Echoes of Greek tragedy and comedy in eurozone debt crisis stalemate
Greek government deals with the farcical finger felt around the eurozone and repercussions of savage austerity
Greece: Syriza victory drives wealthy Greeks to London's property market
Some Greeks fear election of radical leftist party Syriza will cause Greece to exit eurozone.
Greece and the eurozone: A sinful cocktail of debt and denial
Can the eurozone and Greece work through their never-ending troubles?
Grexit: Are Greece and the eurozone delaying the inevitable?
Greece and eurozone appear to have irreconcilable differences amid negotiations of loan extension.
Grexit could push Athens towards Russia or China
Closer ties between Athens and Moscow, or Athens and Beijing are something Western powers will not want, says Marc Faber.
William Keegan: Greek stay of economic execution raises pantomime spectre of post-war politics
Antediluvian economic doctrines of Germany have caused unnecessary social harm to Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.
Euro falls as manufacturing cues as well as Greece disappoint
Worse-than-expected German PPI also weighed on the euro.
Greece asks eurozone for compromised bailout extension
Eurogroup's President Jeroen Dijsselbloem confirmed receipt of the proposal.
Greece bail-out talks collapse: Euro retreats and shares fall
European equities fell after collapse of talks between Greece and its creditors.
Grexit looms: Eurozone top official issues Friday ulitmatum for Greek bailout extension
Yawning gap between Athens and Brussels grows further as meeting ends in stalemate.
Grexit: Greece debt talks cut short as Athens rejects 'absurd' bailout extension
Greek government official slams euro group proposal to extend current bailout as waste of time
OECD agrees to help Greece reform economy
Greece and the OECD agreed on Wednesday (11 February) to work together on reforms to the Greek economy.
Eurogroup's Dijsselbloem: Low inflation can be sign of positive development
In his address to the World Trade Forum in Seoul, he emphasised the region's need for stronger and coherent policies.
William Keegan: United States of Europe falls short of political and monetary union dream
US must despair over whether Europe can ever get its act together.
Greek banks in focus after ECB stops accepting its bonds
Greece's economy remained heavily in focus on Thursday (February 5) after the country's finance ministry said its banking system was protected through its access to emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) available from the domestic central bank, after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would stop accepting Greek bonds in exchange for funding.
Yanis Varoufakis: We're left-wing riff-raff but we can cure Greece's economic ills
Varoufakis arrived in Germany for talks with Wolfgang Schaueble.
Simon Heffer: Whether Greece stays or leaves, anti-austerity threatens to test the EU to destruction
The eurozone will never be the same again after Syriza's victory in Greece.
Greece vows not to negotiate bailout terms with 'troika' from EU and IMF
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis rejects final tranche of international bailout worth €7.2bn.
Bangalore Blogger: Modern education system teaches how to prosper in a dog-eats-dog world
For the past few decades, we've taught a backward education system - that is far from fit-for-purpose.
Syriza and the Kremlin: Alexis Tsipras and Vladimir Putin are new best friends
New hard-left Greek prime minister and Russian president have much common ground.
William Keegan: Greeks have suffered enough in the name of orthodox finance
When economies are in a hole, they should not be forced to dig deeper.