Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia. Greeks consider it like συμπρωτεύουσα (the associated-capital) of the Northern Greece. Indeed, Thessaloniki was already the largest city of the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople.
Mayors hold firm against donating reserves
With the country?s cash reserves running dangerously low, the union representing Greece?s municipalities voted over the weekend against handing over their cash reserves in line with a decree issued by the government last month obliging state entities to transfer their spare money to the Bank of Greece.
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Mardas denies report he transferred cash abroad after joining gov't
Greece's alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas has denied a report in Germany's Bild newspaper that identified him as the government official alleged to have recently transferred 80,000 euros to a bank in Luxembourg.
Reports, which however did not reveal the name of the minister, first emerged in a Thessaloniki-based newspaper earlier in the week.
Thessaloniki's Boutaris angers other mayors by transferring cash
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris believes that the government?s behavior is ?completely crazy? but he has nevertheless led the way among peers in transferring his municipality?s cash reserves to the Bank of Greece, where the government can use them for short-term borrowing.
Report about Greek minister moving cash abroad denied
The government called on two Thessaloniki-based newspapers claiming to have evidence of an alternate minister recently transferring 80,000 euros to a bank in Luxembourg to make the information it has public or to publish an admission that it has nothing with which to back up its claim.
BBC casts spotlight on modern Greek burial practices
The BBC feature on Greece, titled “Graveyard Overcrowding Stokes Cremation Debate in Greece”, focuses on problems concerning burials at cemeteries in Athens and Thessaloniki that are overcrowded. The cost of a permanent grave plot is at 100,000 euros, meaning that cremation – legalized in 2006 – would be a more viable option.
Train Hits Migrants in Macedonia, Kills Fourteen
A train hit a large group of about 50 migrants near the Macedonian city of Veles on Thursday, killing at least fourteen of them.
Migrants, who enter Macedonia from Greece on their way to western Europe, often use the railway as orientation through the unknown terrain, the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) reports.
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Police: 14 migrants killed by train in Macedonia
At least 14 migrants believed to be from Afghanistan and Somalia were killed by an express train as they walked along the tracks in central Macedonia at night, police said April 24.
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New carrier to again directly link Greece with US, Canada
A new carrier is expected to connect Greece with North America, with SkyGreece Airlines filling a void in direct connections between the east Mediterranean country with cities hosting large ethnic Greek communities.
The new carrier was founded by Greek expatriate businesspeople and is headed by Father Nikolaos Alexandris.
Mayors resist coalition's demand to hand over cash reserves
Mayors insisted on Tuesday that they would not allow their municipalities? cash reserves to be transferred to the Bank of Greece, as the government wants, at least until they have held a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.