In an announcement issued on Thursday, Greece's asylum service said that present staffing levels made it "obectively difficult to serve all applicants," in spite making every possible effort to reduce waiting times.

The German department of IALANA organised a meeting this week about the German WWII reparations to Greece.

With great success, "and a three out of three 'hat trick'", the Hellenic Navy's Fast Missile Craft command this morning concluded exercise 'Marine Griffin 2015” with shots fired against a small surface target.

The European Central Bank (ECB) should not be used as Greece’s rescuer, the head of Germany’s central bank Jens Weidmann told a German newspaper, warning that the decision for Greece’s future in the Eurozone is clearly political.