An investment tender for 11.3 billion euros for the port of Thessaloniki is announced. Another 4 billion euros are allocated to the new cruise platform in Piraeus. Communists and extreme leftists are muttering against the privatization.

Tear and asphyxiating gases are defined as chemical weapons and their use is prohibited even during wars. The Union of Chemists in Greece appeals the Prime Minister George Papandreou to ban their use by the police to disperse protesters.