The feast of the Holy Spirit is a semi-holiday for many castes of employees and self-employed professionals in the country, without however, including shop employees, workers, craftsmen and others.
Traditionally, the moveable holiday means a media holiday.
Aware of this, the often-foreign-based Varoufakis pointed this out to reporters when they approached him to ask questions about the withdrawal of Elena Panaritis as Greece’s next IMF representative. “I believe that labor relations in Greece need to be reviewed,” he said. “It is unbelievable that people of intellect and journalists are working on this day.”

Does the news ever stop in Athens, Austin or Adelaide? That could have been reporters’ response.