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The money owed to Public Power Corporation (PPC) by Hellenic Post (ELTA) has now been estimated at more than 60 million euros - much more than previously thought.

Greece is one of the key markets for the Ergo Group, according to its chairman, Dr Markus Riess, who stresses that Ergo is one of the few insurance groups that has invested in Greece during the crisis.

Three key suspects arrested in the crackdown on a militant neo-Nazi group calling itself Combat 18 Hellas have been giving investigators valuable information on its operation structure and on several attacks against migrants and left-wing activists.

A 35-year-old gas station employee from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, is believed to have led the far-right group Combat 18 Hellas, according to police who arrested 11 suspected members of the organization earlier this week.

Of the 11, seven are to face an investigating magistrate on Saturday on charges of running a criminal organization.

Counterterrorism officers launched an operation in the early hours of Tuesday to arrest suspected members of a far-right extremist group calling itself Combat 18 Hellas.

House raids in various parts of Atttica and in one more location that has not been disclosed have so far led to six people being remanded for questioning in relation to several bomb and arson attacks.

Ten Greek conservation groups on Friday issued a joint statement expressing support for the government's draft bill aimed at overhauling regulations for protected areas of natural beauty but adding that the legislation was not comprehensive enough.

Apparently the Greek Civil Aviation Authority had left the 14 regional airports in the darkness. Therefore, when the German-Greek consortium FRAPORT took over last April, they found a total of 12.000 burned out bulbs in the fourteen regional airports.

“We believe in the power of the private economy, we believe that companies and workers together can put Greece back on a path of sustainable growth,” said the president of New Democracy (ND), Kyriakos Mitsotakis during his meeting with representatives of the local economy in Thessaloniki in light of his official visit to the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 15, 16 and 17. Mr.

The leader of Greece’s major opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to visit Thessaloniki on Monday before his official attendance at the the International Fair on September 16 and 17. Mr. Mitsotakis will hold a series of meetings including members of the city’s local economy, scientific and academic community starting at 10.30 in in the morning.