Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras opened on Tuesday the cabinet meeting opened  with a speech, in which according to sources stressed the need for huge reforms and underlined that it would be a catastrophe if the government simply remained stuck to the implementation of the memorandum

"The Aegean Sea does not only wash ashore bodies of children, but it washes ashore the EU culture," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in Parliament.

Three proposals that included the creation of a ghetto for 50,000 refugees in Attica were rejected, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said early on Monday, following the conclusion in Brussels of a mini-Summit of European leaders on migration.