The program was implemented but problems remained, Washington, Brussels and Frankfurt would take the decision on the fourth tranche, said the IMF, EC and ECB experts as well as that labour legislation in Greece would undergo 6-month monitoring.

Primary and secondary school teachers protest mainly against the mergers and the low budget allocated to education. They announced a 48-hour strike on February 22 and 23 and yesterday some pf them joined the strike of civil servants unions that lasted several hours.

The police commander of Ceres renewed his order prohibiting public gatherings, movement and stopping of agricultural machinery in certain sections of the road network in the area to block farmers' attempts to close the Greek-Bulgarian border.

This was the opinion expressed by Leandros Rakitzis, State Administration Inspector General. He spoke at the forum "Over-regulation-poor legislation-lawlessness: Which is the road to recovery?"

The protest against toll payments for the roads that are not build yet and for the bad ones was approved by the majority of Greek society at the beginning but its growing into a movement of non-punching public transport tickets made unbelieving not only politicians but ordinary citizens too.