Minor crashes snagging traffic
Attica’s regional officials are calling on insurance companies to stop advising their clients to keep their vehicle at the site of an accident until police arrive.
Attica’s regional officials are calling on insurance companies to stop advising their clients to keep their vehicle at the site of an accident until police arrive.
Italian-owned railway operator Hellenic Train will reportedly seek to renegotiate its contract with the Greek state, sources have indicated, as the company faces massive revenue losses stemming from September’s floods in central Greece.
Despite vowing this would be the last, the Environment Ministry has granted another extension for some 10,000 applications filed with the country’s building licensing services seeking the green light for irregular construction on small plots outside zoning districts.
Captain Akrivos Tsolakis, a former Hellenic Air Force officer and a prominent air accident investigator, has died at the age of 93.
A Justice Ministry draft bill will make serving prison sentences over three years mandatory and no longer able to be suspended or bought off by payment of a fine.
The structural problems of the iconic arched roof that prompted the closure of the Athens Olympic Stadium do not stem from its design – by award-winning Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava – or construction but are due to maintenance issues, according to the technical study that highlighted the issues.
Water-dumping aircraft were dispatched at first light on Tuesday to help battle a large blaze in the Mesara Plain on Crete that started on Monday evening.
Streets will be closed in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki on Tuesday afternoon to make way for a church procession.
Optima Bank’s share capital increase public offer was oversubscribed 5.1 times, setting the final sale price of the bank’s shares at 7.20 euros per share.
National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis is submitting the 2024 budget draft to Parliament on Monday.