Attica

Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway (ISAP) employees on Wednesday attacked government plans to hire private ticket inspectors and allow ticket sales in supermarkets.

In a statement, the ISAP workers’ union said the provision, included in a multi-bill tabled in Parliament earlier this week, was aimed at “dismantling public urban transport services.”

A replacement bus service, X1, will run on the section of Athens’s Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) between Piraeus and Neo Faliro on Friday, tomorrow and Monday from 6 p.m. until the end of the service on each day due to works, ISAP officials said on Thursday.

The Venetis 1948 bakery chain has invested 3 million euros in a big new outlet in a neoclassical building on Omonia Square in the center of Athens that covers a surface area of 1,200 square meters.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Six people were arrested in various parts of Attica on Tuesday on suspicion of being part of a gang that dealt ecstasy tablets.

The arrests were made during a coordinated police operation that led to small amounts of ecstasy and amphetamines being found.

Giorgos Spanos, the president of the ETEKA fuel company and the Atromitos soccer club, was jailed pending trial on Monday along with another four suspected members of a huge fuel smuggling racket.

The government welcomed an agreement by eurozone finance ministers in Brussels late on Friday to extend Greece?s financial rescue by four months, saying it would give the newly-installed administration time to negotiate a new deal.