Greece and its foreign lenders have largely bridged differences over a potential fiscal gap this year, removing a key sticking point holding up talks to release more bailout funds, two sources directly involved in the talks said to Reuters on Tuesday.

The European Ombudsman has commended the European Commission for publishing 140 documents concerning Greece's entry into the Eurozone in 2001.

Evangelos Venizelos will visit Strasbourg on Tuesday, in order to participate as President of the EU Council of Ministers with the Farmakonisi tragedy on the agenda of talks.

Greek factory activity grew in January, as a survey showed on Monday, marking the first expansion since the country's debt crisis came to light in 2009 Reuters reports, so says Reuters, obscuring the fact that back then, the agency featured all sorts of contradictual dictums.