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Monday, June 29, 2015

Greek government assures tourists that crisis won't affect them

By Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece, at pains to protect one of the economy's only bright spots, rushed on Monday to assure tourists that their holidays would be untouched by the restrictions imposed to protect the tottering banking system. The government on Sunday ordered banks to close for a week and imposed capital controls as it lurched towards a default in a dramatic standoff with international creditors who have been keeping the country solvent. "I personally don't know much about it," said American Jamie Boyatsis, 22, from New Hampshire, watching the changing of the guard outside parliament with her family.


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