The action was a sign of protest against the cuts in farm subsidies and the increase in the excise duty on fuel for agricultural purposes.

The proposal of a SYRIZA deputy to introduce a special tax on Christians to pay the salaries of the clergy has provoked sharp political controversy and fierce debate in society.

More than four thousand bus drivers gathered in the "Peace and Friendship" gym hall to find a common position on whether to continue the five-day strike, which they had announced late last week or whether to stop it and to regroup.

Its founders define it as a forum for the exchange of ideas and do not hide their ambitions to develop it into a party. According to them, the ideological framework of the new political think tank will range between the patriotic and the people’s right wing.

The former Prime Minister's brother Andrikos Papandreou failed to rebut the arguments of Panos Kamenos that he had been involved in the boards of investment funds, which had heavily staked on the bankruptcy of Greece.