Greece, on Wednesday, successfully auctioned a six-month Treasury bill issue draining 812.5 million euros from the market at a higher cost.

"We do not want to go back to the state of affairs that existed prior to the crisis. Greece had many problems and we are not blackmailing the eurozone," Economy Minister George Stathakis said in an interview to CNN late Tuesday.

“The rescue program has triggered a deflationary crisis in Greece,” the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis stressed after his ‘constructive’ meeting with the ECB head, Mario Draghi in Frankfurt.

Πρώτη συνάντηση του νέου υπουργού Εθνικής Αμυνας με ξένο πρεσβευτή στην Αθήνα ήταν με την Ισραηλινή Ιριτ Μπεν Αμπα Βιτάλε.