A new investment totaling € 3.2 million was made by Olympic Brewery with the new production line at the company's plant in Sindos, Thessaloniki.

A Polish man, for whom a European arrest warrant was pending, was arrested after fourteen years, on Crete.

In 2016, more than a third of the population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Bulgaria (40.4%), Romania (38.8%) and Greece (35.6%), according to Eurostat.