Thessaloniki

A new Manpower Organization (OAED) program offers to subsidize hotel enterprises so that they can retain their staff during the winter period.

By Ilias Bellos

Investments and projects worth over 10 billion euros have ground to a halt in anticipation of the election result.

A PAOK soccer team store in the center of the northern port city of Thessaloniki was targeted by unknown assailants in the early hours of Saturday.

Early reports suggested the perpetrators broke into the store and started a fire, damaging a number of goods.

By Jonathan Stearns and Nikos Chrysoloras

Frances Moschou, who supported Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in national elections in 2012, may now represent a bad omen for him as he fights for political survival.

Toll charges on Greece’s national highways started the year slightly down from 2014 levels, as rates are pegged to the performance of the economy.

On the Nea Odos and Kentriki Odos highways linking Athens to the northern port city of Thessaloniki, rates at toll posts have been reduced by between 15-30 cents.

Rates are also down slightly in the Peloponnese and western Greece.

Meteorologists warned on Monday that temperatures are expected to plummet across the country Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting authorities in Athens and Thessaloniki to take special measures to help people sleeping on the streets of the two cities.

Bulgaria receives EUR 1.6 billion from the European Union (EU) for the improvement of transport connections.

Education Minister Andreas Loverdos sought to assure thousands of parents on Friday that their children’s university transfers are not being threatened by a recent court decision.

Thessaloniki-based corruption prosecutor Argyris Dimopoulos on Thursday ordered a preliminary investigation into whether any of the chartered accountants who had been responsible for overseeing the coffers of the northern port’s municipal authorities between 1998 and 2004 should face criminal charges for embezzlement or mismanagement of funds.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoğlu has proposed to his Greek counterpart Evangelos Venizelos that the two visit Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who underwent a mitral valve corrective surgery in New York earlier this month.