Parliament, almost unanimously, has decided to lift the immunity of six Golden dawn deputies: Efstathios Boukouras, Giorgos Germenis, Panayotis iliopoulos, Ilias Panayotaros, Ilias Kasidiaris, and Hrysovalantis Alexopoulos.
More than100,000 applications have been turned in by people from families with no income for 10,000 temporary, five-month jobs at municipal and regional authorities, throughout Greece.
Pay under the programme, which is being run by state employment agency OAED, ranges from €427 a month for those under 25 years old and €490 for anyone else.
Harsh criticism for Greek agricultural policy was the theme which EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos harped on during a common meeting of the Greek parliament's standing committees of European Affairs and Productivity & Commerce.