Poul Thomsen may have moved on to greener pastures but for many Greeks he remains the face of the troika, having been pictured countless times over the years entering and exiting Finance Ministry buildings during seemingly never-ending negotiations between Greek officials and the country's lenders.

The Ministry of Finance will introduce a new legislative initiative for solving the chronic problem of encroached public land.

The Greek office of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) appealed to the European Union to boost support for Greece and other southern European countries struggling with a growing influx of would-be immigrants, reporting that arrivals on islands in the Aegean have tripled over the past year as daily Kathimerini writes.