The crisis in recent days is now taking serious dimensions, liquidity in the market is decreasing at a fast pace ... and the risk of irreparable damage for the Greek economy is now great," said Yannis Stournaras, the former finance minister who now heads the Greek central bank.

Greece would face funding problems if a snap election failed to produce a government that can wrap up a pending bailout review due to unlock 7 billion euros in aid, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis told the financial daily Naftemporiki in comments published Monday.

Τhe Army is in full readiness all along the Evros river until the floods recede, that have been bitterly affecting the region about two months earlier than usual, as the problem from the north part of the river, gradually "moves" to the South Evros.