General Accounts Office

Military and police personnel were on Wednesday staging a protest outside the General Accounts Office in central Athens over cuts to their salaries.

Protesters were requesting a meeting with alternate Minister of Finance Giorgos Chouliarakis to discuss the issue.

Greece and its international lenders (EC, ECB, IMF and ESM) reached the 85-bln-euro bailout agreement to cover the next three years after 23 hours of talks that ran through the night on Tuesday.

The Greek Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government’s negotiations with its international creditors is in full swing even though their chief negotiators have delayed their arrival until Tuesday due to “technical reasons”.