Particularly worrying is the increasing percentage of businesses, sole traders and professions who have difficulty to cover their obligations to social security funds. Expectations for 2010 are that 40% of all small and medium enterprises will be able to cover pension and health contributions of its employees.

Anthropologist Liopi Abadji, who gives lectures on gender at the University of Crete, took the hard task to shed light on the night life of the Greeks who go to strip bars and order call girls.

The goal is to increase the retirement age, which is now 61.3 years, by two years by the end of 2015, announced Minister for Employment Andreas Loverdos.

The goal is to increase the retirement age, which is now 61.3 years, by two years by the end of 2015, announced Minister for Employment Andreas Loverdos. Today ends the social dialogue on the reform of the pension system, with the last meeting of experts, who will propose changes. 

Although the new restrictive measures of the PASOK government were greeted positively, eurozone finance ministers could not reach political decisions for the financial support of Greece.