Meanwhile, Greek National Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos raised the issue of the serious situation emerging in Greek-Turkish relations (“the short period of tension” as described it) with his Turkish counterpart Ismet Yilmaz, whom he met at noon today in Brussels, on the sidelines of the meeting of NATO Defence Ministers .

The new list of property assets to be “developed”, in other words privatized in some way, or another, has been finalized and posted on the government gazette. The assets will be transferred to state asset privatization fund TAIPED.

The former director of the Georgian Interior Ministry’s department for constitutional security, David "Data" Akhalaia, has been released on bail in Greece.

Pavlos Geroulanos, former Culture minister in the George Papandreou government of 2009, wrote an article in “Epikaira” political weekly slamming the party's Olive coalition policies.