On the last day of 2012, volunteers from the "Solidarity" club in the metropolitan district of Neos Kosmos gave the needy in the area the last cooked meals for the year. GRReporter was there to meet them.

The name of the former Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou is at the centre of the scandal. A preliminary investigation against him by a special parliamentary committee is currently being prepared to determine whether he had deliberately removed the names of four relatives from a list of bank accounts of Greeks abroad. r

Immediately after the holidays, teams of the Troika will inspect the progress of main topics such as the budget, recapitalisation of banks, privatisation, reduction of the number of public workers, taxation and insurance.