Evangelos Venizelos will visit Strasbourg on Tuesday, in order to participate as President of the EU Council of Ministers with the Farmakonisi tragedy on the agenda of talks.

High unemployment and the lack of liquidity in the market for the support of small and medium-sized enterprises are the main problems of the Greek economy, which the European Commission believes, "will stabilize in 2014 and revert to a positive growth rate."

Frank Engel ia an MEP from Luxemburg and the head of the Luxembourg EPP delegation. He has written three books on European issues the last of which 'Projet de Manifeste pour les États-Unis d'Europe' ('Manifesto for a United States of Europe') published in 2013 spells out his vision about a federal Europe. Frank Engel spoke to Thimis Tsiliopoulos about what a federated Europe would mean for Greece.