No end to tax evasion as the latest round of 35 spot checks by the financial crime squad found more than 40 million euros worth of phony invoices causing an illicit outflow of 10 million euros of VAT returns.

Processing of seismic research data for hydrocarbons in the Ionian Sea and south of Crete will be completed by the end of the year, according to environment minister Yiannis Maniatis.

The Special Permanent Committee on Parliamentary Ethics decided, yesterday, to recommend that Parliament lift immunity from prosecution for six Golden Dawn MPs facing charges of forming a criminal organisation and other offences.

NATO remains a factor of stability in a fluid and uncertain global environment, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday after meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.