In early July, bidding will begin for concession contracts to conduct drilling in 10-12 mainland areas in the country. So far it is unclear whether they will begin research in the Aegean region

Meanwhile the competent Ministry of civil protection has been without leadership for two weeks now, after Christos Papoutsis submitted his resignation in order to run for leader of PASOK.

The answer of the legal giant Bingham to Venizelos’s ultimatum "now or never" was "No!" Problems are created by the bonds held by the state railways OSE, the Athens public transport company OASA and the Greek defense systems enterprise.

These are the three commandments of the Greek tourism according to the president of the Association of private tourist enterprises Andreas Andreadis. The beauty of tourism lies in the fact that it is done by many small and medium size enterprises and the profit is distributed among many people

BNP Paribas, FMS Wertmanagement, Commerzbank, CNP Assurances, Greylock Capital Management, ING Bank, Intesa San Paolo, AXA confirmed that they will participate in the programme for reducing the Greek debt

Throughout the country and especially in Athens there are thousands of lawyers, many of whom have minimum end even zero monthly incomes as a result of the crisis. The profession is not closed, says Vassilis Katsafados, a member of the board of directors of the College of Barristers in Athens.

Greek police detained 44 members of a criminal group trading with antique items. They have been searching for old valuables of high archaeological value in 13 municipalities in order to sell them on the black market for antiquities in Europe.