A lot of my time here has been spent roaming the streets of Athens, walking up to strangers, introducing The Greek people seem to have taken his advice to heart. Indeed, composure is a word that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras liked to use as the showdown with What impresses me most about covering the crisis in Greece is the resilience and composure of the Greek people. I may have grown up in the United States, but now - I am Greek! Lining up at the banks, I feel a sense of solidarity with my fellow Athenians. But it is my money and I want to have the use of it. My savings here in a Greek bank are meager, just a small account for summer trips. I vary my trips to different ATMs, just out of curiosity, and occasionally, I will run up against one that has no cash in it at all. I quickly learned that 100 is a no-go, and resigned myself to the reality Every other time, like all the other Greeks, I punched inĦ0, still full of foolish hope, and got a message back saying the bank was out of 20-euro notes so I would have to choose 50 or 100. Well, in the just over two weeks since the banks closed and capital controls began, I have managed to take out my full 60-euro allotment only twice. If you’ve been following the Greek debt crisis closely, but from afar, you might be thinking I should have gotten 60 euros, - the official ration, imposed to prevent the banks from running out I just returned from taking my daily cash allowance of 50 euros out of my bank ATM here in Athens. Credit Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press With new terms from the nation's creditors, many Greeks were chafing at the prospect of more change. People outside a bank branch in central Athens on Monday.
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