The Greek government has announced that the new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, will be sworn in by the Greek president at 8pm this evening (6pm BST).

This will allow the Oxford-educated economist to attend tomorrow’s eurogroup meeting and present Greece’s case.

And his first task will be to approve a two-day extension to Greece’s capital controls, meaning banks stay shut until Thursday:

German media are reporting that Alexis Tsipras and Angela Merkel have telephoned (as we flagged earlier), with both leaders agreeing that Greece will bring new proposals with him to the Euro group meeting which may help to overcome the crisis.

Further details of what they discussed have yet to emerge.

Also, a Spiegel correspondent in Greece, Giorgis Christides, is reporting that paper supplies are running out in Greece, with newspaper publishers saying they had enough paper left to print only up until next Sunday.

One publishing manager has even proposed halting the printing of books, until the shortage eases.