The European Parliament has voted to end visa-free travel for Americans within the EU.

Nationality and ethnic origin are among the risk factors for depression among Greek women, who are more prone to suffering from the disease than either men or migrant women living in Greece, according to a survey presented in Athens on Thursday.

With two bills on the extrajudicial settlement of indebted businesses and the setting up of a credit line, the government seeks to ease the business liquidity problem and the problems of the banks that prevent liquidity injection to healthy firms, Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou on Thursday said at the signing ceremony for the establishment of EquiFund together with the European Investment Bank.