Athens sent to Brussels its new proposals to the creditors late last night. Head of cabinet of Jean-Claude Juncker Martin Selmayr defined them as a "good basis" for talks at the EU summit that will start at 8:00 pm tonight.

Over 7,000 people gathered in Syntagma Square in central Athens, in response to the call for participation in the rally against the ‘only possible path of austerity’.

How did the capital controls imposed on Cypriot banks in 2013 affect the everyday life of businesses and households? Problems with transactions and imports. A key factor – the even-headedness shown by the country's citizens.

Just a few hours of anxiety and responsibility remain for prime minister Alexis Tsipras until the crucial summit tomorrow in Brussels. As already publicly recognized even by cabinet members, on 25 January Tsipras was not given a mandate to drag Greece out of the Eurozone.

Greek champions are planning the strongest team in recent years

The protesters decry the plans leading to Grexit, the reintroduction of the drachma and turning the country into an enclave of a Stalinist type "democracy".

The European Council President, Donald Tusk, warned that the Greek shenanigans will have to stop; Alexis Tsipras’ government called the ultimatum “expected, predictable and useless”.