Loans in the red have reached epidemic proportions as is borne out of the annual report from the Bank of Greece, showing they have multiplied six-fold over the last five years.

The Greek parliament will need, by May, to approve  dozens of measures to make its economy more competitive, as condition for receiving further funds from the troika with which it resumed bailout talks on Monday.

An 18-year old student from the 10th General high school of Larisa, in northern Greece, received gold medal at the National Mathematical Olympiad “Archimides”.