Public sector layoffs will be concluded at the end of 2014, according to administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who added that the public sector layoffs "have been allocated throughout the year and will be concluded at the end of 2014.”

A motion for a vote of censure/confidence in the government was tabled by SYRIZA in parliament, on the occasion of police intervention to clear the compound of public broadcaster ERT of occupying former employees.

Government reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Troika representatives today and will again meet with them on Friday at 15.00 in the afternoon in order to finalize negotiations.