President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos will host a luncheon for the political party leaders at 14:00 on Friday at the presidential mansion to mark the 41st anniversary since the fall of the 1967-1974 military junta and the restoration of democracy in Greece.

The situation with the capital controls is proceeding satisfactorily and within the next ten days we will have resolved any problems that have arisen, Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yannis Stournaras said after a meeting with trade representatives.

From 2008 to 2014 the country’s business register shrank by some 229,000 small and medium-sized enterprises and 700,000 jobs were lost, according to a study by the Center for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE).