Trade unions threaten to intensify the protests and the Ministry of Employment has announced that 2012 will be the hardest of the last three years.

Greece is in crisis, but Carlos Papoulias receives a higher salary than his US counterpart Barack Obama

"The travel agency Thomas Cook sends about a million tourists a year to Greece. These people will continue to travel. Therefore, they will have to find another travel agency with which to travel. From this perspective, there will be changes in the market. But this is quite natural," states George Drakopoulos.

"We give political expression of public discontent with the policy of the Memorandum and the people who can no longer identify themselves with the major ruling parties," said the members of the interim organizational committee Nikos Kotzias, Alexis Mitropoulos, Panagiotis Kouroublis, Antonis Kostakas and Dimitris Tsoukalas.