The management discharged 15 technicians and three journalists. The other four are facing the choice of signing individual employment contracts or being the next laid off.

The first Greek name in the "golden" list on the Island is Aristotelis Mistakidis whose fortune is estimated at 1.7 billion pounds. He is the manager of the leading international integrated commodities producer and marketer, Glencore.

Sources say that it is not excluded that the Hellenic Republic Assets Development Fund be replaced by a ministerial team, which will be supervised by the Prime Minister himself.

The cousin of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Nikos Zigras, told in detail in his nine-hour defense speech, how they carried the suitcases with "dirty" money from bribes for the submarines and the supply of Russian anti-aircraft missiles TOR Μ1

Representatives of private-sector employees have requested that the 22 per cent reduction of minimum wage be removed and insisted on measures against unemployment.

The forest fires in the province of Achaia, Peloponnese and Kissamos, Chania area on Crete, are still raging and late yesterday a village was evacuated as a precaution.

The country is ready to withdraw its citizens from Syria, if needed