Harris Katsivardas, a lawmaker who was elected with the far-right Spartiates party in the north sector of Athens, announced on Thursday that he is quitting the party’s parliamentary group and becoming independent.
The extensive restoration required to reopen the railway line in central Greece that was destroyed after a deadly storm last year will likely rise to 280-300 million euros from an initially estimated 200 million, sources from state-owned Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), which is responsible for managing and maintaining the rail infrastructure, said.
Greece will insist on the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated in a videotaped statement at the opening of the exhibition “Cycladic art: The Leonard N. Stern collection on loan from the Hellenic Republic” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Pedestrians apparently have no place to go in Athens. Instead of enjoying the right for carefree strolls or hurried walks, and pushing a stroller or a wheelchair, they encounter all kinds of obstacles, from shop tables, chairs, trees and cars, while balancing on broken, slippery, upturned slabs.
With the ultimate aim to garner the vote of at least 120 lawmakers of ruling New Democracy when it reaches Parliament, the cabinet Wednesday approved the bill on same-sex marriage.
An incendiary device damaged the entrance of a bank branch in the district of Petralona, central Athens overnight.
A last-minute amendment tabled by the Conservative government to extend postal voting rights to expatriates in national elections was rejected by the entire opposition.
Nikos Konstandaras, a columnist for Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how Greece, given the position it finds itself in today, has a unique window of opportunity to push key reforms forward that would go a long way toward tackling some of the key challenges the country is up against, particularly the demographic challenge.
Deputy National Economy and Finance Minister Harry Theoharis paid a visit to Larissa, central Greece, on Tuesday to meet with local economic agencies as part of an effort to boost regional areas and reforms.