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.

Evangelos Venizelos' reference to “far right pockets,” in New Democracy and his statements about how such phenomena should be inadmissible in the government was an obvious reference to close circles around the Prime Minister. The issue is problematic for PASOK and for many in New Democracy who do not like the idea that government cadres have a “hard right wing agenda.”

The appeals council has decided to extending the pre-trial detention of members of the Golden Dawn, Christos Pappas and Yannis Lagos for another six months.