According to the 2012 Hellstat data announced this week, restaurants selling and delivering pizza suffered the most. The decline in their turnover reached 30% compared to the period before the crisis.

Fivos Istavrioglou stole the painting literally from under the noses of the gallery guards in July last year. The police lured him to return to New York, offering him a job as a consultant in the art gallery.

The bank expects a critical first quarter of this year because of the introduction of a series of new taxes that are extremely unpopular among the public.

They write that the reason is the protests against high electricity prices during which many citizens demanded the resignation of the government.

Directions for the assembly of explosive devices that are activated by a mobile phone, 10 fake ID cards, SIM cards, a hard drive, five USB devices, live ammunition and chemicals for the cleaning of weapons are just some of the objects seized from the latest hiding place.

The massive strike procession passed peacefully through the centre of Athens. There were clashes at the end of the strike but the police quickly put the situation under control.

The protest involved slightly more than 100 people. A new strike in the public television has been announced.