The poverty line in Greece is 7,178 euro per year. Incomes up to 5,000 euro per year are non-taxable. The people in the lowest income bracket will have to pay for their "luxury" living a tax of about 500 euro only to allow public workers to keep their jobs.

Some of them work for half a wage and take the jobs, and in the evening, all of them steal copper wires and iron shutters of shafts, deputy Nikolaos Mihos told GRReporter.

The Athens International Film Festival "Opening Nights Cosmote" will show 179 films. 96 of them are full-length films and 83 are short stories. Bulgaria will present "Faith, Love + Whiskey."

The holidaymakers were from Russia and were travelling to the airport to return home when the bus skidded on the wet road surface and overturned.

Crédit Agricole is selling its stake in Emporiki Bank for corporate reasons, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said during his visit to Athens. He urged Greece to comply strictly with its obligations to creditors.

Enraged trade unionists booed ministers and deputies and warned them to ''be careful what you do''. Hours later, the trade unionist responsible for the private sector Nikos Kioutsoukis was disaffiliated with New Democracy.

General strike in Greece on 26 September, disabled and stockbreeders protested today.