Finance Minister to face Schaeuble as government wrestles with austerity package.

The sale of contraband cigarettes in Greece has grown considerably, estimated at some 3.5 billion euros per year for 2010 and 2011.

Some 400,000 employees were not paid at least three months’ worth of wages last year, according to a former official of the state Labor Inspectorate.

The Greek PM visited the run-down area of Omonia in central Athens as police continued with a crackdown on crime and arrests of undocumented immigrants.

The Athens Stock Exchange suspended trading in shares of state-controlled lender Hellenic Postbank following a nearly 30 per cent plunge in its shares.

The governments of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will begin discussions in September about the exporting of natural gas quantities to western European countries.

A state of emergency has been declared on Rhodes after an extensive wildfire broke out in the forested region between Agios Silas and the Petaloudes valley.

According to the electronic crime squad working on the case the video recordings were made in classrooms and show teenagers speaking Greek.

An armed robber made off with an undisclosed amount of cash from a bank in Anixi, a rural area north of Athens, after shooting through the window of the bank.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met with his coalition partners for talks on a package of some 11.5 billion euros in austerity measures for 2013 and 2014.