Tensions ran high today in downtown Athens, as school teachers protesting proposed layoffs, in a surprise move stormed the personal offices of government reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The office is housed on the fifth floor of an apartment building on 8 Efroniou Street, and the demonstrating teachers have actually taken over the building.

The agreement between the Troika and Greece foresee public sector layoffs, mobility, and new assessment procedures in place starting in September.

Public sector layoffs will be concluded at the end of 2014, according to administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who added that the public sector layoffs "have been allocated throughout the year and will be concluded at the end of 2014.”