After nine months of constant strikes, the owners of Greek Steelworks SA have announced that they can no longer maintain the inoperative plant in Aspropyrgos and will close it completely.

I did not fund the radical left, former New Democracy deputy stated in an angry letter to Dimokratia newspaper.

Stournaras has pledged to reduce the budget deficit for this year to 14.8 billion euro in absolute value rather than as a ratio to GDP. Creditors continue to support the country, but they will not make any concessions.

Greece can cope with its obligations, said Marina Papanathassiou, professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

Residents of large urban centres can get cool in air-conditioned communal rooms free of charge.

Public sector reorganization is important not dismissals, stated the "green" deputy Odysseas Konstandinopoulos in an interview with Anastasia Balezdrova.

GRReporter contacted the Hellenic Republic Assets Development Fund, which was established to carry out the privatisation. The representative of the Fund Christos Konstas told us what has been done so far and what the greatest challenges of the Greek privatisation programme are.