Yannis Kolesidis

Two women return from a swim at Kokkino Limanaki beach, near Rafina, Wednesday, walking past the charred remains of trees burned in last week's wildfires. Neos Voutzas, Mati and Kokkino Limanaki were the coastal settlements that were hardest hit by the blazes.

Residents and commuters in central Athens were treated to a basketball display at the weekend outside the Syntagma metro station which was put on by children and young people taking part in the Athens 3x3 Basketball Tournament. The tournament was organized by the City of Athens Youth and Sports Organization (ONA) and endorsed by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

Greek pensioners are reflected in a shop window mirror as they take part in an anti-austerity rally in central Athens, Tuesday. An estimated two thousand pensioners took part in a rally to oppose government cuts to their pensions. [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA] 

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (r) welcomes his Estonian counterpart Kersti Kaljulaid (l) for talks within their meeting in Athens, Thursday. Kaljulaid is in Greece on a two-days official visit.  [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

Britain's Charles (c), the Prince of Wales is guided by British Royal Navy officers during his visit to the British Navy multi-role hydrographic survey ship HMS Echo at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Thursday. The British royals are on a three-day official visit to Greece.  [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

Greek truck drivers staged a demonstration on Saturday at the Afidnes toll gates near Athens. Around 500 vehicles were parked along the side of the national highway by truck drivers who are complaining about the impact of the country's financial crisis on their sector.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talks to the International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Lagarde said she congratulated Tsipras on his government's reform efforts while also calling for more work to secure economic growth and an exit from the bailout program.

Rampelia Patinioti (c) is examined by military doctor Perikles Syros (l) during a mission of medical staff organized by the Hellenic Navy on the Aegean island of Anafi earlier this month.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (center) and his wife Elke Buedenbender are guided around the Acropolis Museum by its president, Dimitris Pantermalis (r), on Saturday. Steinmeier, in Athens on a two-day visit, also attended the opening of the documenta 14 art exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST). "I cannot imagine [the EU] without Greece.

A masked protester lobs a petrol bomb at the Parliament building Monday during a demonstration organized by pupils in central Athens to protest planned reforms to the Greek education system and spending cuts imposed on schools as part of a broader belt-tightening program demanded by Greece's international creditors.