Parliament vote with 24-hour transport and 3-hour Panhellenic strikes and the international agency Fitch warned it should lower the credit rating of Greece.

We will not compete with private televisions for advertising promised reporters the new head of the Greek national broadcaster ERT Lambis Tagmatarhis.

The police operation for the release of the deputy director of the tax administration in the city of Vonitsa Hristos Petropoulos ended shortly after 15:30. The two police agents entered the premises of the financial department after lengthy negotiations with the hostage-taker but were met with gunfire and one of them was wounded in result.

An armed man has taken hostage of a tax administration employee in the small town of Vonitsa, Etoloakarnania District.

There will be 70% more pensioners in Greece after 50 years. This requires greater contributions, longer working experience and lower pensions in the future.

The closed professions liberalization is the millstone of the George Papandreou’s government – many discontent lawyers, engineers, architects and pharmacists are against the new draft. Its adoption, however, is mandatory if Greece is to get the 15 billion euros of the financial support.

Athens usually takes a rest of protests on Sunday. All shops were open, the trees on Syntagma Square shone with lights and the children enjoyed the little pony and clowns that entertained them with balloon figures. Children from several schools and some tourists had gathered up in the square late in the afternoon to see the changing ceremony of the honour guard at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. A small group of people gathered shyly and slowly to hold a sitting protest against what happened in Greece the last year.