Budget 2010 which has to provide the necessary financial stimuli to Greece for the exiting of the recession was accepted with 160 votes

Without reforms in 2015 Greece will not be capable of paying pensions and social welfare

The first instance of the Athens administrative court declared to be anti constitutional the additional tax imposed on the high annual incomes which the government of New democracy introduced for the 2007 tax year. This additional measure of the government of Kostas Karamanlis affected 128 thousand tax payers who had to pay additional money at the amount of 1000 euro to 2500 euro on top of the already calculated tax on the total income. This amount depends on the declared annual income.

Papandreou: "We turned into testing animals of the European Union", European Central Bank: "Athens has to manage its budget deficit on its own"

Thanasis Tsakiris and his daughter Panagiota will take part in the 21st Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver

In his announcement to the organizational committee of Athens 2011, the president of Special Olympics expressed his satisfaction from the support, which the Greek government provides to the Special Olympics and from the working program of the committee