The metro station closest to Genimatas Hospital has been shut down for fear of rioting outside the hospital where Nikos Romanos is being held on the 23^rd day of his hunger strike.

There has been significant progress in the ongoing talks with the troika of Greece's international lenders, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis said on Monday at the Greek Economy Conference organised by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in Athens.

Main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras said in an interview to private Skai television on Monday that he will never sign an agreement requested by Greece's troika of lenders, as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has done, not just because he is not Samaras but also because there is an ethical perspective and "we do not have the right to make that blunder."