Тhе debates about the unsustainability of the Greek debt have delayed the payment of the financial aid. The head of the Institute of International Finance, Charles Dallara, insists on lower interest rates on relief loans instead of another debt restructuring.

The participants, most of whom were public sector employees, accused the unions of not announcing a 24-hour strike.

The next tranche will be worth 44 billion euro and it will be an aggregate amount of the payments that the country should have received in June, September and December.

Prosecutors have begun investigating the bank accounts of Yiannos Papantoniou from PASOK and Spilios Spiliotopoulos from New Democracy for suspicious transactions for the purchase of military equipment.