Farmers may have been hit in the face with the government's tax measures , but their rally in Athens was relatively uneventful, with more than 4,000 present.

The President of the ETEKA group and Atromitos F.C. Giorgos Spanos, has been arrested for his involvement in an illegal fuel smuggling ring.

MEP Marilena Koppa announced her independence from PASOK. Hereafter I have no organizational relationship with PASOK . I remain as an independent MEP in the Group of Socialists and Democrats," she said.