The sale of Parnita casino and the Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewerage were put for the first time on the negotiations table. The government will keep 51% of the Thessaloniki company in its hands and for the rest 23% plus its management, it will look for a strategic investor. The employees of the company reacted immediately and today they announced a three hour strike and a meeting, on which they will decide how to act. The general manager of the company called in all the leaders of the syndicates and announced that it is scandalous for public employees to ask for a salary raise, when their salaries are the same as the ones of teachers - ?48 000 per year.

On the council, the Ministers discussed the procedure improvements for including a strategic investor in the Public Gas Corporation and the sale of public properties on the method sale and lease back.