Strict guidelines for the budgeting of the 2016 General Government were given by the deputy finance minister Dimitris Mardas to ministries and agencies asking fiscal tightness in expenditures.

The use of military installations throughout the country as open camps, not as detention centers for hosting migrants, was proposed by Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis, speaking to SKAI television adding that the required European funds are available and unexploited.

With molotov cocktails and clubs, a group of about 20 masked persons attacked the offices of PASOK on Harilaou Trikoupi Street, shortly after midnight.