Egnatia

Greece is preparing to double the amount of road toll for the segment from the Kulata-Promahon CPS to Thessaloniki, the Bulgarian News Agency reported.

Two Bulgarian nationals faced a prosecutor in Rhodopi, northern Greece, Wednesday on charges of attempting to smuggle undocumented migrants into the country after authorities found 14 people hidden in a special compartment in the roof of their truck.

The government has announced the construction of 10 new toll stations on the Egnatia Highway that crosses northern Greece.

According to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis, four of the stations should be in operation by the end of August while the remaining six will come into use by the November 1.

More than 40 villages were struggling with a complete power outage in the Western Macedonia region on Thursday following heavy snowfall overnight, while in the northern Peloponnese, a rock fall caused by rain closed off a section of the Patra-Corinth highway.

State sell-off fund TAIPED saw its management crisis escalate on Thursday night after one of the three remaining governing board members disagreed with decisions promoted by the other two.

The country's creditors have already been made aware of the problem, which began when TAIPED head Stergios Pitsiorlas's was made deputy economy minister.

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) launched a process on Wednesday for the lease of Egnatia Odos, a major trade route that runs across northern Greece from east to west, and part of a bailout agreed with the country's international lenders.

Athens will launch a tender for the long-term lease of a major toll road by the end of September, a senior official of Greece's privatization agency (TAIPED) said on Thursday, to unlock the country's next tranche of bailout loans.

Thousands of employees took to the streets of Thessaloniki Saturday to protest against the government.
The Union of Employees in the private sector along with those in the public sector and PAME took a front seat in the protests.

Bad weather in parts of the country on Saturday left at least one person dead and widespread damage, following the death last week of four people and the disappearance of another in floods.

A 30-year-old man died early Saturday when the car he had been driving was swept into a swollen stream in the village of Vrysoules near the town of Corinth.

The 13th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is taking place at the Helexpo exhibition center (154 Egnatia) from May 12 to 15 with two special tributes, the first to Russian literature as part of the Year of Greek-Russian Friendship, and the second to refugee crises past and present.