Athens

A section of central Patission Street was closed off to traffic late Wednesday for one hour due to street clashes between unknown assailants and a riot police unit in the the area surrounding the historic Athens Polytechnic building in Exarchia.

Only 5 percent of refugees currently living in Athens want to remain in Greece, with the rest all keen to continue their journeys toward western and northern Europe, particularly Germany, according to survey carried out by Public Issue on behalf of Athens City Hall's observatory for refugees and made public on Wednesday.

According to three surveys that were presented by the Mayor of Athens George Kaminis, 54% of the citizens of Athens consider the integration of the refugees in the Greek society as “difficult”, while 70% think that the refugees’ children should enroll to Greek schools.

The Greek capital is hosting just under one-third of some 60,000 refugees and migrants who should be more fairly distributed around other parts of the country, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said on Wednesday.

Athens Mayor George Kaminis said 66% of Athenians believed the presence of migrants and refugees in the city did not cause any problems. Presenting the results of three separate studies conducted by the Refugee Flow Observatory in refugee hosting camps, which also polled the attitude of Athenians for the refugees, Mr.

Foreign investors and international markets are awaiting tangible results from Athens in order to be convinced that the country is, finally, turning a corner, and that something is moving after years of frustration.

Video footage and photos of the extravagant “Bollywood-style” wedding of the Indian couple that were tied the knot in Athens has been released on social media. The wedding celebrations that lasted 4 days took place at the Zappeion Hall and cost nearly 1 million euros with all the guests flown in from Mumbai, London, Nigeria and India.

The Greek Film Archive presents its fifth annual Israeli Film Week, which this year will also travel to Thessaloniki for the first time, running at the John Cassavetes cinema at the port complex from April 20-26, before heading down to the archive in Athens on May 3-7.

Up-and-coming New York-based Greek artist Maria Fragoudaki will be shaking things up at Athens's Syntagma Square on the evening of Thursday, April 27, with a special art happening.

Balmy springtime weather is expected across much of Greece over the Easter holiday weekend, as temperatures will reach highs of up to 27 degrees Celsius in some inland areas, but will top out at around 20C near the sea. Winds will be moderate, except for some stronger gusts in the central and southeast Aegean.