While workers in landfills are on strike, employees of the cleaning department at the Athens Municipality rush to clean up tons of waste that have piled in the streets in downtown Athens. Meanwhile, public administration's auditors found serious violations in the public service functioning.

The Parliament approved the budget after stormy debate, economists have required reforms braver than envisaged in the Memorandum and Bloomberg filed a lawsuit against the European Central Bank for the statistics in Greece.

Drugs in bulk, millions of euros in banknotes and shares, dozens of suspects drug trade found by the Greek police in recent days. Police officers and doctors were selling drugs to inmates in one of the cases and the other reveals the customers - well known representatives of local show business, and relatives of politicians, according to some sources.

Andreas Vgenopoulos resigned again from the Board of the team of clovers. Mr. Marfin made this dramatic move after the infamous loss of the greens with 0-1 from the not very popular until recently team of Olympiakos-Volos.

Tons of waste "adorned" a lot of neighbourhoods in the centre of Athens in the last few weeks. Mountains of garbage really block the streets and the smell they bring forces people to change their route home.

The economic situation and the difficulties the countries in the region are going through inevitably affect the number of shares traded on stock exchanges. A common platform between Athens, Sofia, and Bucharest could attract the interest of international investors and increase turnover

Parliament vote with 24-hour transport and 3-hour Panhellenic strikes and the international agency Fitch warned it should lower the credit rating of Greece.