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Greece is drawing up plans to nationalise banks and introduce a parallel currency to pay salaries and pensions unless the eurozone softens its demands for austerity measures, according to Britain's The Telegraph .

The office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday issued a statement noting that the views on sitins expressed in an article by Alternate Citizens' Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis are his own and do not represent those of the government.

Alternate Citizens Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis has called for a crackdown on sitins at university and government offices across the country, warning that allowing such occupations to continue in the name of democratic rights is a "boomerang" and that failing to impose any rules could lead to the "decay of the values of the Left."

The aides of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Greek and Russian embassies in Moscow and Athens, are feverishly preparing for a scheduled visit by Tsipras to the Russian capital on April 8 and 9 which the Greek government hopes will serve to significantly upgrade bilateral ties.

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras impromptu visit to the Health Ministry on Thursday was followed by a statement outside the ministry. He said that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government is working hard to reverse the bad climate in the health sector.

Former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the BBC that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made "completely unrealistic promises" to voters that it cannot now fulfil. The high-ranking EU officla who left his post in October says taht Greek demands were "completely unacceptable to other countries."

Bloomberg reports that former conservative New Democracy (ND) prime minister Antonis Samaras, ousted by Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister in snap elections on January 25, 2015, states that he is willing to join a "unity government if the concessions required to win emergency loans drive a wedge through the ruling anti-austerity coalition."

The government is considering putting the Citizens? Protection Ministry under the auspices of the Justice Ministry in a bid to boost both civil rights and public order, sources said on Wednesday a few hours after anti-establishment protesters entered the courtyard of Parliament.

Six billion (extra) euros in state revenue from proposed reforms is Athens’ goal for 2015, according to a … 26-page document delivered by the leftist SYRIZA government to the “Institutions” on Wednesday.