Thessaloniki

The government is keen to keep a tight grip on state corporations, which is why the transfer of such companies to the new hyperfund for state asset utilization, officially titled Hellenic Holdings and Properties Company SA, has been allowed to drag on. The transfers are a part of the framework of the second review of the third Greek bailout program.

The number of nights visitors spent in Greece's second biggest city in 2016 rose 5.56 percent from 2015, to 2.31 million last year from 2.19 million a year earlier, Thessaloniki Hotelier Association data show.

Greeks spent 6.83 percent more nights (1,226,544) and foreigners 4.16 percent more nights (1,083,073).

Members of anarchist and extreme leftist groups wreaked havoc across Greece well into the night of Thursday, November 17, burning, smashing property and occasionally clashing with police forces.

Thessaloniki bus workers walked off the job for the 11th day in a row Tuesday, demanding three months in unpaid wages.

Responding to the protracted action, the Transport Ministry said that, in association with the Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization (OASTH), it would pay protesting workers a month in pending wages.

Thessaloniki bus workers walked off the job for the 11th day in a row on Tuesday, demanding three months in unpaid wages.

Responding to the protracted action, the Transport Ministry said that, in association with the Thessaloniki urban transport organization (OASTH), it would pay protesting workers a month in pending wages.

Thessaloniki bus workers walked off the job for the 10th day in a row on Monday, demanding three months in unpaid wages.

The workers gathered outside the offices of the Thessaloniki urban transport organization (OASTH) to protest.

In comments to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency, the head of the workers' union Dimitris Tsermenidis said employees have not been paid since July.

Greece will hold two meetings on migration with several of its neighbours in the next two weeks, the country's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has said.

The meetings, planned for April 14 and April 21-22, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greek news agency ANA-MPA quoted Kotzias as saying at a press briefing on Friday.

The Istanbul pogrom, known in Greece as Septembriana, took place on September 6-7, 1955. Anti-Greek riots were orchestrated by the Tactical Mobilization Group, the Counter-Guerrilla and the National Secuρity Service.

Alternate Revenue Minister Dimitris Mardas – the man responsible for ensuring that Greek coffers have enough money for the country to meet its needs – was named by Bild as the man that northern Greek newspapers had been refering to regarding an 80,000-euro deposit in Luxembourg in March.

Russia's state-owned railway company has shown interest in acquiring the shares of the Port of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city.