The heavy snowfall which began late last night in the Greek capital continues. There are power failures and the traffic on the national road network is hampered.

Xanthi and Rio Casinos in dismissed 32 employees in recent weeks. According to the president of the union of the Rio Casino employees Dimitris Karageorgopoulos, the company has been profitable in recent years and staff is needed. The Rio and Xanthi Casinos are the property of THEROS INTERNATIONAL GAMING, which is part of Marfin Investment Group owned by the businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos.

Greece collected 1,625 billion euros from the sale of 26-week bills at 4.75 % interest rate, the spread-yield reached 930 basis points, the Prime Minister Papandreou threatened to veto the European Union