On the suitcase: Berlin, Paris

A**ntonis Samaras: *"Everything is fine. Now, let's get back to work."***

Man: "Work? What work?"

After his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras still hopes to get a two-year postponement, to 2016, to allow Greece to get its deficit under control. But his European partners will make their decision in October, after the next report of the EU-ECB-IMF troika.

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