Greece is ready to mobilize and offer the army headquarters in Larisa as an EU Operational headquarters within the framework of an European intervention in the Central African Republic.

In a letter and a video posted on anarchist-linked site athens.indymedia.org, terrorist fugitive Christodoulos Xiros delineates the reasons he fled during furlough and his plans from now on.

The ceremony celebrating the readiness status for EU Battle Group HELBROC for the first half of 2014 took place at the headquarters of 71^st Airmobile Brigade in Nea Santa,, Kilkis prefecture, in the presence of Hellenic Chif of the Armed Forces General Staff Michael Kostarakos.

A mix-up out of the blue caused a small raucous at the traditional cutting of the new year's cake by Hellenic Repuiblic president, Karolos Papoulias.