New Democracy retains the lead with 25%, SYRIZA is only one per cent behind, shows a public opinion survey by Pulse agency

About 50 protesters appeared suddenly in front of the Athens Police Academy in the early hours of the day and blocked the door from which the buses to Thessaloniki should have left. Over the weekend, the northern city will host the annual Thessaloniki International Fair. The state administration is increasing the police presence and is detaching commandos from Athens.

Judges, prosecutors, doctors, policemen and firemen rebel wage cuts. All of them are planning to strike, threatening that if the government did not give up, long protests in various forms would follow.

Archaeological studies of the route had a budget of 15 million euro and were to be completed within 8-10 months. Instead, they continued for more than five years and cost the Greek taxpayer 90 million euro, the constructors said

This is the motto of the Greek Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, which is focusing on the capital - without inferiority complex, but without false megalomania too.

Aristidis Makrodimitris reached the third place and won a bronze medal in Men’s 100 m freestyle swimming, S2 category, with a time of 2:21:04.

Vima newspaper published an official document by the supervisors to the Greek government, which contains a list of reforms to improve the labour market and contribute to the revival of Greece’s productivity.