There will come contemporary pension insurance after at least two of the sacred cows of the public sector are put to the sward - the first is the idea that the state pays for everything, and the second - that the working generation provides for pensioners.

"I am not of those who argue that culture will save us from the crisis, but I think that the Acropolis Museum could become the place where you could take a breath, to put away the grayness," says the director of the Acropolis Museum Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis.

"Greek universities have a vague direction, inadequate goals and an uncertain future," states a report of an international experts' committee on the status of Greek universities.

The bill introducing changes to the law on ministerial responsibility was adopted on first reading with the votes of the two major parties PASOK and New Democracy. The extreme rights from LAOS voted against it, while the communists and the radical left abstained.