Responding to the request by the Ethniki (National) Bank's administration to extend the one-year deadline for the sale of Ethniki Insurance, the EU's Directorate-General for Competition is reportedly posed to refuse. The DG Comp is putting pressure on the bank to accelerate the procedures for the sale of the insurance firm.

Ten years have passed since Alexandros Grigoropoulos's killing by a police officer, in Exarhia, on this day, and as every year on 6 December, there will be gatherings and memorial events.

With a new official announcement, the FYROM government regrets if its comments were understood in any other way. This after PM Zaev spoke of "Macedonian" being taught in Greek schools, in future.