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“Bombshell No. 2” in last week’s “Riga Gate” development related to the question of whether Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis secretly taped deliberations at a recent Eurogroup meeting in the Latvian capital.

Germany’s Handelsblatt proclaimed “Varoufexit” on Thursday, a day after a NYTimes feature article on increasingly controversial Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis wrote that the latter taped portions of the Riga Eurogroup session.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has raised a fresh furore by telling a newspaper that he taped a confidential meeting of eurozone finance ministers, drawing criticism that he was undermining Greece's efforts to secure aid from lenders.

In its article titled, “A Finance Minister Fit for a Greek Tragedy”, the New York Times reports that Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis threatens to tear Europe apart with his defiant stand in ongoing negotiations.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Piraeus Mayor Yiannis Moralis will attend the official premier of noted Greek composer Giorgos Hatzinasios’ opera “El Greco”, which on Tuesday at Piraeus’ recently renovated neo-classical Municipal Theatre.

After a session of SYRIZA's political secretariat on Thursday night that was said to be stormy, Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis on Friday highlighted the need for good ties between the government and the leftist party's organs.

An extensive photo-story by award-winning Reuters photo-reporter Yiannis Behrakis showed images of closed factories and plants from around Greece, some apparently shutting their doors due to the recent and extreme economic crisis and others closed for years.

“Can I commit that we’ll be the government in January (2015)?” was Greek “celebrity” FinMin Yanis Varoufakis’ response to a contract cleaning lady on Wednesday outside the ministry.

By Jillian Ward

Mark Carney said U.K. growth is susceptible to any escalation of the Greek debt crisis after the Bank of England cut its forecasts through 2017.

The NBA’s “Greek Freaks”, brothers Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo, returned to their old neighborhood of Sepolia, in central Athens, on Tuesday for a pick-up game in front of neighbors, past teammates, friends and b-ball fans in general.