According to the official announcement of the players, this has created real problems with the financial survival of some players and they have requested that the agreed amount be immediately paid to them.

They warn of the danger of politicizing the issue in the upcoming election battle, financial experts do not excludean involuntary haircut on the Greek debt, but promise that it will not be the end of the world.

Three years after the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos, student protest marches in his memory have again turned Syntagma Square into a battleground. In the early afternoon hours a procession of pupils and students was held, which grew into direct clashes between the minors and the police. Shortly after 7.00 pm, anarchists finished what their young followers had started.

The revenues from the new merciless taxes must fill the hole in the budget, which according to official data, has reached almost three billion Euros to November this year. The aid from Europe and the International Monetary Fund cannot fill the gap because the money is needed to pay public sector wages and pensions before Christmas.

Ministers and senior players in PASOK have opposed Michalis Chrysochoidis. At the same time, George Papandreou and Evangelos Venizelos do not utter a single word about the expected change in party leadership.