Greece could take this action only in the presence of a fair chance to come to agreement with the creditors. Otherwise, the failure to pay the loan could cause panic in the financial markets and a mass withdrawal of bank deposits in Greece.

Later the Ministry of Finance announced that the proposal had been withdrawn from the negotiating table with the creditors, not specifying who had submitted it.

A burnt piano at the University of Macedonia shouts "No more violence and outrage".

If you announced in time that you would not pay there would be no credit event, as stated by Deputy Minister for Social Security Dimitris Stratoulis.

The total amount of outstanding obligations of the state to private Greek companies exceeds 5 billion euro.

The Bulgarian authorities have undertaken to establish a video surveillance system on the border. The aim is to know how many and what children leave the country in order to verify that they are returned back, Kostas Giannopoulos told GRReporter.

Both children are dark, of visible age about 4 years, but their exact origin has not yet been clarified. According to some reports, one of them is from Greece and the other from Bulgaria or Romania.