It has recently become clear that Varoufakis has left Greece and moved to the United States with his family to become a senior economist at the online games company Valve. It uses a virtual currency in its developments and in the words of the economist, cited by Businessweek, “they asked me to study their ‘economy’ so as to prevent the formation of bubbles.”

The deepening crisis and its duration foster political extremism and therefore, the rise of the extreme right in Greece is temporary, wrote the sociologist and political scientist Antonis Elinas.

According to the National Bank of Greece, about 72 billion euro has been withdrawn from the country from the onset of the crisis until now. Prospects for permanent devaluation of the new national currency and for loss of money under the new conditions have scared people.

The Ministry of Health announced that it has reached an agreement with importers. It is not yet clear whether the quantities will be sufficient for the needs of all cancer patients in the country.