The charge will be levied on all passengers departing from airports in Greece with the exception of children aged under two years and crew members.

It is possible that Greece will miss the Eurogroup meeting on 8 December, at which it hoped to reach an agreement on the release of the last tranche of the bailout.

The Bulgarian nationals had made five purchases of goods and one attempted to make purchases using counterfeit banknotes of 50 euro in shops and companies in Komotini, Alexandroupoli and Xanthi.

Another impressive mosaic, but this time on the floor of a Roman bath, has been discovered by Greek archaeologists during the excavations near the city of Didymoteicho in northeastern Greece, which was called Plotinopolis in Roman times.

In the new scheme, Carlsberg will hold 51% of the shares whereas the current shareholders of Olympic Brewery will own the remaining 49%.

The vessel that had alerted about a sailor infected with the deadly virus onboard arrived in Piraeus port last night, the Greek centre for epidemics and infectious diseases control has officially announced that the case is not of the Ebola virus.

Both quakes had a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale and occurred with a few minutes difference - the first at 1:05 am and the second at 1:09 am early on Tuesday.