More than 800 Chinese tourists will arrive at Heraklion port on Friday morning and they will stay until 7 p.m. in the evening. They are the passengers of the first World Cruise.

A Euro Working Group teleconference between Greece and European technical experts on the economy was concluded in a good climate on Wednesday noon, according to the finance ministry.

According to the Financial Times, the European Central Bank has decided to make it illegal for Greek banks to add to their holdings of short-term government debt “in a move that effectively cuts off a key source of funding for Athens and heightens the risk of a sovereign default.”