The Ministry for Citizens Protection decided to recruit about four thousand full-time firefighters on fixed-term contracts for five years to enhance the fire services in the country.

Many teachers participating in the procedure for appointing counsellors, directors and deputy directors are trying to win a place in the school hierarchy by submitting fake diplomas, master degree certificates, new technologies and languages certificates.

The data show that one in four Greeks do not know how to swim, and the country is ranked the first in Europe and the second in the world by the number of drowned people based on the population.

Higher taxes, reduced consumption and market decrease made the traders who have survived so far to start much bolder sales than in previous years. The data show that one in every three shops has gone bankrupt in 2011.