Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was received by president Prokopis Pvlopoulos on Wednesday, immediately after returning from a tumultuous two days tour of Brussels and Strasbourg, where he was given an ultimatum by creditors to achieve a bailout deal.

"The Eurosystem operates from January 1, 2015 under a European community directive which guarantees all bank deposits up to 100,000 euros per depositor for each account", Louka Katseli, president of Hellenic Bank Association said on Thursday.

Greek unemployment rate eased to 25.6 pct of the workforce in April, from 25.8 pct in April and 27.0 pct in April last year, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday.

Two train cars of commercial train 23500 derailed, today at 6:45 in the tunnels of Tembi, for yet unknown reasons.