Government vice president and foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos called upon to comment on the recent NGO scandal, commented that it would be sad if foreign ministry staff were implicated.
The launching of the “Movement of 58” at Acropol theater on Monday night drew a lot more people than organizers had expected. Many, and of varied political hues, were those from the political elite, the intelligentsia, and academia that attended the inaugural event.
Former PM Giorgos Papandreou was in Istanbul planting trees at the same with the Turkish PM's inflammatory rhetoric denying the existence of the Cyprus Republic.