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ギリシャのヤニス・バルファキス財務相は7月2日、オーストラリアのABCラジオに出演し、「ギリシャは既にお札を刷る輪転機を全て破壊しており、ドラクマ紙幣を刷る能力がない」と話した。
バルファキス財務相は、ギリシャがEUに加入する前年の2000年に「将来のユーロ圏脱退の可能性を排除するため、当時のドラクマ紙幣の輪転機を処分する必要があった」と主張。「ギリシャは独自紙幣を刷る能力がない」と説明した。
ギリシャは7月5日に国民投票を実施することで、ユーロ圏を離脱するのではないかとの見方がある。ギリシャがユーロを離脱すると同国内では旧ドラクマ紙幣が使われるとみられており、すでに5月には世界最大の紙幣印刷会社であるイギリスのデ・ラ・ルーが、ドラクマ紙幣の印刷に向けて準備を整えていると報じられていた。
ギリシャの革ジャン財務相
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime minister\'s office in Athens on May 10, 2015 a day ahead a Eurogroup meeting. AFP PHOTO / Angelos Tzortzinis (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANGELOS TZORTZINIS via Getty Images)
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives on his motorcycle for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister\'s office in Athens on June 21, 2015. With Greece in danger of tumbling into the economic abyss it faces the haunting memory of Argentina in 2001, when the South American country defaulted on nearly $100 billion and was plunged into a crisis it is still battling back from. \nAFP PHOTO / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANGELOS TZORTZINIS via Getty Images)
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A combination made on June 20, 2015 shows Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arriving on his motorcycle for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister\'s office in Athens. Athens said on June 19 that it was still hopeful for an 11th-hour deal to stop it defaulting on its debt, as despairing Greek savers withdrew their cash from the country\'s troubled banks ahead of fresh talks next week. AFP PHOTO / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANGELOS TZORTZINIS via Getty Images)
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis grabs his helmet off his motorcycle as he leaves the prime minister\'s office in Athens on June 28, 2015. Greece will work with the European Central Bank on formulating a response to the cash crisis facing its banks before they are due to open on June 29, Varoufakis said on June 28. Speaking shortly before an emergency gathering of Greece\'s systemic stability council, he declined to say whether the government intended to introduce capital controls.AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images)
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Greece\'s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives for a cabinet meeting at Greek Prime Minister\'s office in Athens, Greece, on Sunday, June 21, 2015. Greece is struggling to reach a deal with its creditors for new loans that it needs to avoid defaulting on debt payments at the end of the month. Without the bailout, Greece could be headed for bankruptcy or an exit from the 19-nation eurozone. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Mr Yanis VAROUFAKIS, Greek Minister for Finance. (credit:EU Council Eurozone/Flickr)
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Journalists ask questions of Greece\'s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, center, as he leaves his office in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece\'s latest proposal for aid Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Greece\'s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, center, rides his motorbike as he leaves his office in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece\'s latest proposal for aid Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis , left, speaks with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde during a round table meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Luxembourg on Thursday, June 18, 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing Greece to deliver on commitments to carry out reforms, stressing that she wants the country to remain in the common currency. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, right, chats with Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis during an emergency Parliament session in Athens, on Friday, June 5, 2015. Greek Prime Minister AlexisTsipras said that his government cannot accept \"irrational\" proposals like one made this week by the institutions overseeing Greece\'s bailout, and insisted any solution must also include some form of debt relief. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Greece\'s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis drives his bike as he leaves his office at Syntagma square in Athens, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Greece is set to become the first developed nation to not pay its debts to the International Monetary Fund on time, as the country sinks deeper into a financial emergency that has forced it put a nationwide lockdown on money withdrawals. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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