Exiting the state accounting office, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced an offset of VAT debts, noting also that this is a very significant reform that will very soon lead to market stabilization.

Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou on Friday replied to statements by main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA), saying they served only to confirm the party as an "advocate of Golden Dawn and underminer of Greece's stability."

Standard & Poor’s rating agency raised the credit rating of the Public Power Corporation DEH to B from CCC, DEH said in a statement Friday.

The Spring quartet will be playing in Athens, at the Central Stage of the Onassis Foundation, on 11-12 April.