Trolleys, buses, the underground, trams, taxis, municipal officials, doctors, journalists in national media, customs officers and Ministry of Defence employees were on strike today in Greece. This is only a small part of the strikers, who will wave the flag of discontent next week.

The Greek government is ready to fire all municipal employees who refuse to collect waste and block the entrances of the landfill.

"I am annoyed and angry when I see that the whole media system is directed only against politicians. Could wealthy Greeks who got rich by taking advantage of state power and shamelessly took € 67 billion abroad in eight months have stronger patriotic feeling?", Evripidis Stylianidis, who is in charge of the New Democracy programme, asked himself in an interview with Anastasia Balezdrova.

The portfolio of the international financial institution in Bulgaria for the next four years has doubled.

After long hours of chase with the protesting municipal councillors the Greek Minister of the Interior, however, managed to declare that if the strike in landfills continued, waste collection would be commissioned to private companies.

German bankers have strongly opposed the measure, and Barclays Capital are concerned about the occurrence of a credit event.

The strike of employees of the Ministry of Culture once again deprived thousands of tourists of the opportunity to visit the Acropolis despite the huge distances they had travelled to get there.