The amendment was adopted, but with losses for PASOK and New Democracy. Opposition parties voted "against" and Dora Bakogiannis said she would refer the matter to the Constitutional Court.

Nothing can make the maritime workers trade union change its decision to hold a 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week. Intense negotiations over the weekend between the government and the trade union organization were not efficient.

The policy pursued today is ineffective, say Greek traders and called for tax incentives to support consumption in the south of the border.

Expensive cost of credit is one of the reasons for the lack of economic growth, says the president of the Union of Listed Companies Panagiotis Drakos in an interview with Victoria Mindova.

The Ministry of Finance will try to raise the amount of 1.6 billion Euros by auctioning, on Tuesday, six-month treasury bonds.

After the funeral of Dimitris Christoulas the demonstrators who had gathered in the central square of Athens organized a procession.

Eight out of ten Greeks do not trust the government and the opposition. 76.3 percent have no confidence in the leader of New Democracy Antonis Samaras. Disapproval for trade union leaders as well.