Finance minister Yannis Stournaras called for New Democracy MPs opposed to the new tax bill, especially the single property tax, with whom he met on Wednesday evening, to put forth any "fiscally neutral" proposals they had for changes.

Tonight's meeting between the prime minister Antonis Samaras and government vice president Evangelos Venizelos seems to augur a bad climate between the two main pillars of the government.

The importance of tourism in the backbone of Greek economy was the gist of the address by finance minister Yannis Stournaras, at the 12th Conference of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) entitled "Tourism and Growth."