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Greece's Yanis Varoufakis prepares for economic siege as companies issue private currencies
Greece has stockpiled enough reserves of fuel and pharmaceutical supplies to withstand a long siege, and has set aside emergency funding to cover all the country's vitally-needed food imports. ADVERTISING Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, said the left-Wing Syriza government is still working on the assumption that Europe's creditor powers will return to the negotiating table if the Greek people don't agree to their austerity demands in a referendum on Sunday. "Luckily we have six months stocks of oil and four months stocks of pharmaceuticals," he told The Telegraph. Mr Varoufakis said a special five-man ... (full story)