The austerity economic measures and the threat of dismissals in the public sector have opened the season of strikes in Greece. Daily protests will be held by the end of the week and on Thursday, Athens will remain without public transport.

The Troika made it clear that Europe and the International Monetary Fund will do anything to keep Greece in the euro zone, but the government should trigger the hard reforms immediately. The negotiations continue tonight.

"Yellow gold is eternal and can be worn regardless of fashion trends dominating during certain periods," says the renowned jeweler George Maramenos in an interview with Anastasia Balezdrova.

Stephen Butt is the man behind the fund. He is the second largest shareholder in the Greek public company after the state.

The second floor of a new building in the Athens district in the northern suburb of Kifissia fell during remedial works. Three foreigners and two Greeks were sent to hospital.

The Greeks will make privatization worth pennies after the value of public companies has fallen almost in half in three years.

This is the implication of the decisions of July 21 and it is now Greece's turn, stressed the Fund's Permanent Representative Bob Traa, according to whom taxes would not fall if tax evasion is not eliminated and the public sector is not cut.