54,000 more households will receive the social dividend, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas said to ANT1 TV on Tuesday.

Athens was fraught with demonstrations, again today, as pensioners, shipyard workers, disabled persons, teachers and supporters of imprisoned Kurds holding a hunger strike bore down on different ministries and parliament.

Citizens from Crete calling themselves "Group of Iraklion Sensitized Citizens" sent a "care package" to the mother of finance minister Yannis Stournaras.