The interconnector between Greece and Bulgaria IGB would be the first completed part of South Stream, the goal being to put it into operation in 2018, as stated by CEO of IGI Poseidon SA Elio Rugerri.

Unable to keep its campaign promise to put an end to the Troika, the Greek government announced that it would negotiate only with the institutions (θεσμοί, thesmi in Greek), which are nothing else but the former Troika. Thus a new term was born, namely θεσμόικα (thesmoika).

Greece will do everything possible to require Germany to pay its obligations due from the time of the Nazi occupation, as stated by him in a speech that indirectly but clearly associated the issue with the ongoing talks in Europe on solving the financial problem of Greece.