Farmers from Kilkis region blocked at noon on Thursday the customs at Evzoni, (at the main border crossing between Greece and Fyrom) protesting for the increase in their contributions to social security funds and other issues of their sector.

The countdown for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his government had begun and nothing that he says or does will now be able to stop it, main opposition New Democracy spokesman George Koumoutsakos said on Wednesday.

A finance ministry bill amending the customs code in order to help a crackdown on illegal tobacco and tobacco product sales was passed by Parliament on Wednesday, with broad support from nearly all parties.

Silent grief and mourning filled the Rodopi village of Aratos on Wednesday, where the body of 18-year-old Hussein Daiyicik returned for the last time to be buried, after his death in a killing spree unloosed by a single gunman in a Munich shopping mall last Friday.