The meeting between prime minister Antonis Samaras and government vice president Evangelos Venizelos, ended late Thursday evening, with discussion focusing on the fate of the Skaramanga shipyards and the course of the EU's National Strategic Reference Framework funds.

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.