Representatives of local government organizations resent the reduction of state funding to municipalities by half. After the "Kalikratis" reform of regional planning, the number of municipalities has been reduced from 1034 to 325 and their costs - cut by 70%.

Greek pension insurance funds still have serious deficits. According to the data for the first two months of this year, the insurance funds in Greece have already used 27% of the budget funds allocated to them.

Illegal government spending worth 618 million euro for the period 2009 before the fall of the government of Costas Karamanlis was found by he control body to the Court. Such unreasonably high government spending was found in the state budget in 2008 when it reached 66 million euro. The pre-election period three years ago catalyzed its multiplication by ten, mainly by the paying of additional fees, unnecessary supplies, emergency appointments in the public sector, benefits to the salaries of employees in the public sector and other irregularities.

The new spokeswoman of PASOK Fofi Genimata said all opponents of the European perspective of Greece should be fully opposed.

According to an article in the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Turkish Cypriots are preparing to open the closed town of Famagusta under their control and to allow its residents to return on 1 July. On the same day, when Cyprus will assume the rotating presidency of the European Union, the unrecognized state in the north of the island is preparing to terminate the discussions for resolving the Cyprus dispute.

The groups attacking immigrants are organized and involve minors.

Kostas Samaras, wanted by the police for thefts, robberies and other crimes, threatened to detonate himself in the Jumbo shop in the neighbourhood of Tavros.