The significant rise in tourism in Athens and the strategy of the municipality towards this end was the focus of a speech by Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis , during the inauguration of the Black Sea Tourism Forum & Workshop.

Greece will begin exiting the crisis in the first half of 2014 was the message from government vice president of the government and foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos.

Just hours after the publication of the IMF report, on Wednesday night, that mentioned the necessity for new measures in 2014, Christine Lagarde expressed the opposite view.