The procedures for the first evaluation of the new programme will start in October, a senior eurozone official said on Wednesday.

Greek unemployment rate fell to 25.2 pct of the workforce in June, compared with a 26.6 pct rate in June last year, but rose compared with a 25.0 pct rate in May 2015, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday.

The television debate of Greece's political party leaders which was broadcasted on public channel ERT ended shortly after midnight on Wednesday. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras admitted that his coalition government wasn’t able to implement part of the pledges he had made before the last elections, but added that the battle to change things will continue.

Clarifications on the statements that migration flows have increased following the resignation of the government and that islands were enriched by refugees were given by former deputy minister of immigration policy, Tasia Christodoulopoulou.