The private sector in Greece desperately calls for a stable tax system, low corporate tax and urgent privatisation, the role of the banks as lenders will be very limited in 2011 and 2012.

The compulsory organ donation was resisted by lawyers and human rights defenders during the first meeting, which discussed the new bill on organ donation and transplantation of human organs.

The changes in the global economy, the general economic stagnation, the reduction of social benefits and the deterioration of working conditions are the main topics discussed at the 16th World Trade Union Congress of held in Athens.

The Greek media will fall into silence for four days. Today, kiosks sell Sunday newspapers, and the information flow stops until 6 o’clock on Monday morning.