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The Greek government has extended bank closures and a €60 (£43; $66) daily limit on ATM withdrawals until Monday.
The curbs were imposed on 28 June, after a deadlock in bailout talks with creditors led a rush of withdrawals.
The European Central Bank has decided not to increase support for Greek banks until the debt crisis is resolved.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33456182
But it's not all bad news. The Greeks have apparently come up with a credible plan as demanded - they're just looking for the fag packet they wrote it down on...
Meanwhile this is, apparently, how Greeks feel and are being seen in Germany:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33446985
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Recent academic research has found that anti-Greek sentiment is on the rise.
"You hear people say 'we've had enough', 'we pay for you' and things like that," says Niki, who came to Offenbach from Thessaloniki in 2010 and works in Frankfurt airport. "It's not comfortable."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Niki socialises almost exclusively with her compatriot, often playing tavli, or Greek backgammon, with two German-born Greeks in Offenbach's Greek pub.
"I want this to end," she says, referring to the ongoing negotiations between Greece and its creditors. "I want to go back."
"It's going to be tough for me in Greece, but I prefer to be there with my people in my country, instead of staying here and listening to all this..."
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A little further down Offenbach's Frankfurter Strasse, I come across Valerios, a 25-year-old who came here from Drama, a remote mountainous region in northern Greece, two years ago, and is now doing a vocational course while working in a hotel.
While he and his friend Pavlos, a builder who has been in Germany for four years, tuck into a kebab, Valerios says he, too, is acutely aware of how his country is perceived by some Germans.
"They say we are so lazy, that we don't like to work," he says, "and this comes from the media."
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I dare say that German migrants in Greece aren't flavour of the month either.
Now who'd have thought that anything remotely like this could have resulted from the EU's perfectly logical and measured drive towards monetary and political union?...
