Themistocles square was full of people and children's voices, as it was delivered to the inhabitants of the 5th Pireaus district, after major repair works.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras ruled out any collaboration after the elections with PASOK, newly-founded KIDISO or To Potami and said that if his party did not garner enough votes to form a government it was open to collaboration with anyone accepting its Thessaloniki platform with the exception of forces "that led the country to its catastrophe."

There is no danger of Greece exiting the eurozone,  Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told a seminar at the economic think-tank Bruegel in Brussels on Monday.

Business people should compare his party New Democracy's programme with that of main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA), Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in a speech at the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EVEA) in which he also pledged a gradual reduction of business taxes from 25 percent to 15 percent.