Elliniko-Argyroupoli

Authorities evacuated a makeshift camp at the site of the old Athens airport in Elliniko on Friday, moving hundreds of migrants to another venue in Thiva, north of the capital, where conditions are said to be better.

A children's balloon floats in front of a balcony where riot policemen stand overseeing an operation to clear out a makeshift migrant camp at the disused Elliniko airport in Athens on Friday.

Greek police on Friday began clearing out a makeshift migrant camp which sprung up in the former Athens airport over a year ago.

Greece's privatization agency, TAIPED, is scrambling to keep a major privatization project afloat following a decision by the Piraeus forestry authority to declare as woodland a section of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko, which was conceded to a consortium of Greek, Chinese and Arab investors last year.

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou on Thursday backtracked on a decision to request the reassessment of the status of several buildings at the old Athens airport in Elliniko, following Kathimerini's revelation that she wanted three more buildings in the area to be listed after her ministry's Central Council for Modern Monuments had decided on only one.

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has reportedly backtracked on a decision to request the reassessment of the status of several buildings at the old Athens airport in Elliniko, south of Athens, which has been slated for already-delayed development.

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has raised a new obstacle to the development of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko, whose implementation has already been delayed for years.

Koniordou has sent a letter to her ministry's Central Council for Modern Monuments asking for the reversal of its decision on listed buildings in the area.

Traffic restrictions will be introduced in central Athens on Sunday for the Athens Half-Marathon, which starts at 9 a.m. and is expected to finish by 1.30 p.m.

Motorists should avoid the entire area around Syntagma Square, including Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, the start of Kifissias Avenue and the start of Vouliagmenis Avenue.

Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas on Tuesday inaugurated a new reception center for migrants in Thiva, north of Athens, which is expected to become home to hundreds of people currently living at the capital's old airport in the southern suburb of Elliniko.

At a time when the most pressing demands are to create conditions for economic growth and to attract investment to the country, the government - beholden to its ideological hang-ups - continues to expend all its effort and ingenuity on how it will increase its political clientele by making use of the state.