With just over five months to go until European Parliament and local elections are held in Greece the Greek coalition government's majority in parliament shrank to just three seats on Saturday after a lawmaker rebelled over a controversial new law to extend property taxes to farmland.

The Greek government will be taking over the EU presidency on 1 January 2013 with a host of very dangerous problems dogging its heels.

Kozani representative Rachel Makri was born in Ptolemaida in 1973 and is a civil servant with the environment ministry.