For fears of attacks on politicians, Athens and major cities in Greece will become impenetrable fortresses. Police officers have been ordered to use batons and tear gas in case of need as well as to make preventive arrests.

UK and Germany comprise 25% of the Greek tourist market and we can not afford to lose them, says the president of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies.

In less than four years, over two hundred bank branches have closed in Greece and about four thousand employees have been dismissed, according to data for the period 2008-2011. The cut in bank branches came naturally with the deepening crisis and recession.

Half of the deputies disaffiliated with PASOK and New Democracy have joined other parties. A surprisingly large percentage of approval was received by the new Independent Greeks party. The extreme right-wing Golden Dawn is gaining power.

Rising unemployment has forced institutions to work together; for many years, chaos has been preventing the programmes from stimulating employment.

The court in Athens has ruled out a new postponement, the fourth in a row, of the case against the three Greeks who had cruelly attacked three young men from Afghanistan.

With a very different protest against the crisis Greek poets celebrated World Poetry. It was attended by 100 publishing houses, associations of artists from the country and abroad, foreign students and ordinary citizens.