For the first time, however, Frankfurt has not officially announced the amount by which the limit has been increased. According to unconfirmed sources, it is 2 billion euro or 1 billion less than the 3 billion euro requested by the Bank of Greece yesterday.

The shipment remained on the border for more than two months until the authorities decided how to return it.

Both Bulgarians and Greeks are unhappy people, said PhD Ioakeim Kalamaris in an interview with Ivan Petkov taken for GRReporter readers.

Only 24 hours after the European Central Bank increased by 1.1 billion euro the limit of the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) that provides financing to the Greek financial institutions, the banking system required a larger influx of liquidity to overcome capital flight.