Attica

After a temporary dip in August, price increases at Athens hotels resumed in September, setting the average cost of accommodation for their guests in the first month of the fall almost 40% higher than the levels of 2019, the last year before the pandemic and a record year for Greek tourism.

The second most visited monument in Greece after the Acropolis is that of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament building in Athens.

More specifically, its visitors are estimated at over 15 million per year and among them are tourists from all over the world, as well as Greeks who either live in Attica or visit Athens for business or leisure.

The weather will show a new deterioration on Sunday with Attica being one of the areas that will be most affected.

After weeks of mixed messages from ministers and with the COVID-19 epidemic raging in Attica, the government has finally decided to ban movement between prefectures for Greek Easter, which is on 2 May this year.

"The government proposes that inter-regional movement not be permitted for Easter," government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni said in an interview with SKAI this morning.

By Aris Ravanos

There are adequate excuses for all that has occurred over the last hours in Attica due to the snowstorm.

Entire neighbourhoods went without electricity and water for many hours in Attica, which is home for about half of the population of Greece, and not in any remote region.

Nursing staff of state-run hospitals will hold a four-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest what it described as "divisionary" policies, their union POEDIN said on Wednesday.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) fined 1,610 people for flouting regulations restricting public movement on Monday.

With reports of fraud linked to the Covid-19 pandemic proliferating on a global scale, Greece has also had its share of incidents, Kathimerini understands.

Security police in Pyrgos in the Peloponnese said on Thursday that they have arrested five suspected members of a criminal organization behind a series of thefts, assaults and arson attacks and are seeking another five suspects believed to belong to the same ring, including a police officer based in Attica.

The government usually acts as if it were the hegemonic and dominant political force of the country.

The hegemony they are touting is not real. Citizens exhibit and reveal a different story in all their actions ahead of upcoming local, European Parliament, and national elections.