Firefighters continue to battle  flames in Eastern Attica, Loutraki and Dervenochoria.

The acceleration of the development processes of the e-National Port Community Platform by the co-competent Ministries of Shipping and Electronic Government was the focus of the discussion of the Board of Directors meeting of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry-PCCI, which was attended by the Minister of Shipping and Insular Policy, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, the president of Hellenic Chamber of Shipping-HCS, Giorgos Pateras and the representatives of the president of +ENOSIS and Greek Union of Shipowners-UGS, Ms. Melina Travlos, Christos Bousios and Ekaterini Peppa, respectively.

The Fire Department is on a war footing  due to a fire that broke out in the Kouvaras area of Attica and is burning near houses.

In a response from Athens, published on its website, economic review Handelsblatt refers to efforts to combat tax evasion. As it points out, "tax evasion has a tradition in Greece. The Greek government no longer wants to accept something like this and is announcing a series of measures." The newspaper's correspondent reports that “black employment is widespread, even among doctors.