The struggle for change is not book theories but daily action, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressing a SYRIZA event on the first year anniversary of SYRIZA-ANEL governance under the slogan "One year Left, One year battle. We proceed" held at the Tae Kwon Do arena.

Greece’s opposition parties harshly criticized the government for the high taxes included in the 2016 draft budget which is discussed in the parliament’s economics committee since Wednesday.

"The things I saw in Skala Sykamnias are not a Greek problem. They are my personal problem as a European citizen, as a human being, as a politician of our common homeland of Europe," European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis said in statements on Thursday, while visiting the island of Lesvos in the northeast Aegean