Seven people were arrested on Monday in Chios for making homemade rockets, in view of the Easter celebrations. The previous night, according to the Hellenic Police, some of them were injured in a warehouse on the island by the ignition of a mixture of materials that would fill the rockets. The warehouse was filled with “raw materials”, necessary for the ceremonial Easter “rocket war” in the town of Vrontado.

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, ranked Greece among the strongest economies in the Eurozone during remarks at an IMF event ahead of the Spring Meetings.

Low productivity and a large investment gap remain major “thorns” for the Greek economy, according to a report published today by the OECD. At the same time, low innovation and the slow adoption of technologies by businesses continue to limit Greece’s growth potential.

Nearly 85,000 vehicles streamed out of Athens on Holy Thursday as Greeks began the country's largest annual migration, flooding highways and filling intercity buses to capacity despite a 10 percent rise in ticket prices from a year ago.