Dozens of Syrian refugees who had been protesting at Syntagma Square in central Athens for the past three weeks were removed early on Monday morning.

The bad press Greece has received in the last week owing to possible political and economic developments has had an immediate impact on tourism bookings for 2015, according to the president of the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis.

Eurovision fans can sleep easy, as Greece has been given the green light to enter the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.