Wealthy Greeks of old Athenian families headed to Gstaad, St. Moritz, Courchevel, Maldives, Paris but also to distant India. Athenian elite celebrities will celebrate the New Year in their aristocratic villas or luxury ski hotels around the world, although some of them will stay in the capital because of professional duties.

"You can learn more from your mistakes than from your successes."

Some of the reasons for the insurance sector volume decrease this year are the higher costs as extraordinary taxation of profitable businesses and snowballing withdrawal of life insurances.

Huge drop in circulation of newspapers, lack of control of broadcasting and commercial market shrinking are the reasons for the crisis in the Greek media.