Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis and Athens Mayor Georgos Kaminis announced the construction of the so-called “Metropolitan Cycle Path”, along a 27-kilometre course. It will begin from Kifissia and will end in Faliro, after passing through the city center of Athens.

A new building including 15 operating rooms at the Evangelismos Hospital, donated by National Bank, was inaugurated by Health Minister Makis Voridis.

The economic program announcement by the main opposition party SYRIZA is wrong and unclear, the Finance ministry said in a detailed statement on Tuesday evening.

Over 800,000 farmers will have to return the funds they received five years ago as they have been described as non-compliant with European Union legislation and deemed to constitute state subsidies.