It is a cargo ship and the first assessments indicate that the 700 people on board are illegal immigrants.

Athens Municipality is inviting its residents and visitors to welcome together the New Year with a number of events that will begin on the eve of 2015.

Serious discrepancies in the official information on the number of passengers on board the ferry, even more serious signs of disparaging of the situation by the crew and wrong decisions by the Italian authorities, who coordinated the rescue operation and were responsible for it.

As revealed by a document of the routine inspection of the vessel performed on 19 December by the port authorities in Patras.

So far, there has been no information on the nationality of the victims, nor is it clear whether they were registered passengers or illegal immigrants who travelled on board the ferry without tickets.

The third attempt to elect a president has also failed. The elections will take place on 25 January or 1 February 2015.

Zdravka Mihaylova talks with anthropologist Christina Petropoulou, one of the most prominent researchers of the Greek colonies in Italy, for GRReporter exclusive.