The proposal of the National Bank of Greece provides for the acquiring of all ordinary shares of Eurobank and the issuing of new shares with a nominal value of one euro per share. 58 shares of the new scheme will correspond to 100 shares of the old Eurobank.

The suspects stated before the prosecution that the amounts in the Swiss branch of HSBC were legal and that they had paid taxes on them. Now, the investigation is about to prove or refute this.

Anarchists occupied the building again in protest against the breaking up of the anarchist commune. In response, the police seized more than 100 people and "cleared" another occupied building.

The police have revealed a firm selling the data to banks, firms and pawnshops. The authorities state that the data are similar to those that had "leaked" from three ministries.

Andreas Apostolidis, 64, and Costas Georgiou, 74, were arrested in an attempt to smuggle 24 million cigarettes imported illegally in the country.

Representatives of the union of workers in the Athens underground broke into the building of the Sepolia depot and blocked the centre controlling the underground transport. Transport services in the city have been hampered, and buses and the regional train are running to the airport.

The schools in seven Athenian suburbs have been closed due to the snowstorm and the municipality in the capital has opened three buildings to shelter the homeless in the freezing January night.