"Today we are taking a most important, meaningful and historic step by proposing a constitutional guarantee of the minimum guaranteed income," Labour and Social Protection Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said on Tuesday, during the debate on revising the constitution in parliament.

A suit to the Prosecutor of the District Court of Athens was tendered by ENDYSIS (United Pensioners Network), against the leadership of the Ministry of Labor and minister Efi Achitsoglou and the administrators of the social security fund EFKA and the Unified Auxiliary Fund, denouncing that the pensions are not intentionally paid by the government so it cancreate a very high surplus to show lenders.

Greek demonstrators,belonging to communist party aligned All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) stormed the country’s labor ministry and confronted the minister on Tuesday in protest at moves to restrict the right to strike, a condition set by international creditors in exchange for bailout funds.