Mr. Bakriniotis, who two weeks ago shut down a restaurant he ran in the center of Athens because of falling sales and rising taxes, said he doesn't want Greece to leave the euro.
"If we can't solve even Greece, we won't be seen as being able to solve anything else, " he said.
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If he doesn't, then Greece could indeed leave the euro in a rush after the election.
But as a matter of simple arithmetic, if the banks don't lose and Greece gains, there must be an additional subsidy in there somewhere from eurozone governments, either in the "high-quality assets" provided as a back up or, possibly, the promise of preferential treatment for these new bonds in the event of a default.
But wouldn't forgiving more of Greece's debt be a reward for bad behavior?
But, as the man himself frequently points out, if the new election is really to be treated as a referendum, the question won't just be whether Greece should stay in the euro.
Even if all goes to plan in a fiscal sense - and it hasn't done that in Greece for years - the ratio of public-sector debt to GDP in Greece would still be 120% in 2020.
Ms. Merkel went on German public radio that month and said Greece didn't need aid.
It means that Greece won't be the poorest and scruffiest cousin any more.
The IMF argues further draconian budget cuts aren't achievable and will make Greece's economic program more likely to veer further off track.
Without a deal with the troika or an about-face by its members, Greece won't have the money to repay these bonds triggering a potentially disruptive default.
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The plan for Greece wasn't complicated or surprising: Sit back and try to withstand the attacks, keep the game close and hope to catch the German defense dozing.
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Fractionally more voters appear to have believed Mr. Samaras than believed Syriza's claim that Europe wouldn't dare to cut off Greece's financial lifeline for fear of financial chaos.
True, Greece wasn't the best matchup for the three incumbents.
He told the Today programme that "elements of the recipe haven't worked" and that Greece needs a couple of years more to reach their fiscal targets or "our country will be torn apart".
Europe hadn't resolved how to keep Greece afloat.
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Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who also heads the group of the euro-zone's 17 finance ministers, told Germany's Spiegel magazine in an interview pre-released Saturday that help for Greece won't be made at any cost.
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So the potential increased exposure for Eurozone taxpayers of between 50bn euros and 120bn euros is sufficiently large to provide quite a big incentive for the British government to argue that Greece isn't its problem.
But there are concerns that the debt restructuring doesn't go far enough in cutting Greece's debt burden.
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"I certainly don't think it's inevitable that Greece is going to default, " Mr Osborne said.
We're not in some kind of economic nightmare situation, we're not Greece, we don't have a basket-case economy.
Well I certainly don't think it's inevitable that Greece is going to default.
It didn't say anything that had not been said before - indeed, the words from the French and German side didn't do much more than confirm that Greece was part of the eurozone.
But Berlin has so far been adamant that it won't agree to increase the size of Greece's loan package, meaning that higher Greek public spending in the near term would need to be offset by deeper cuts later.
Speaking in a nationally televised statement, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras congratulated Mr. Samaras on his victory but indicated he wouldn't support a government that continues with Greece's tough program of austerity and structural overhauls, known here as the memorandum.
If growth continues to underperform expectations, Greece's debt won't be much lower in 2020 than it is today.
"In the case of Britain I sought assurances that Britain wouldn't be pulled into a eurozone package for Greece, and I've received those assurances, " UK Prime Minister David Cameron said.
Tsakonas's goals are clear even if the circumstances in his country are chaotic: In the face of Greece's economic crisis, he mobilizes friends, family, artists and architects to help him create housing that will improve life in Greece where the state won't or can't.
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