Geography of Greece

The Court of Audit ruled on Tuesday that Panathinaikos soccer club should not receive 7 million euros from the Attica Regional Authority to improve its stadium at Alexandras Avenue in central Athens.

The court found that the transaction, approved by the previous Attica Governor Yiannis Sgouros, was not in the public interest.

A military airfield in Tripoli, in the Peloponnese, will be opened to passenger traffic, according to a joint decision signed on Tuesday by the ministers of Defense, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and Infrastructure, Michalis Chrysochoidis, ceding partial use of the airport to Civil Aviation Authority.

A 64-year-old woman was arrested in the Langada suburb of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, on suspicion that she had been cashing in the pension of a dead aunt for six years.

The economic program presented by Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday would cost 11.3 billion euros to implement, SYRIZA said Monday.

The 62-year-old director of a fuel company based in Dubai denied on Monday in a Piraeus court that he had anything to do with the Noor One, a ship that transported a ton of heroin to Greece earlier this year.

European Youth Card holders will continue to benefit from 12-euro train tickets on the Athens-Thessaloniki-Alexandroupoli and Athens-Kalabaka routes, it was announced on Monday.

The deal, signed between Trainose and the General Secretariat for Youth, foresees 3,000 tickets sold per month to card holders on certain intercity services.

Christos Chomenidis resigned from the supervisory board of NERIT on Monday, citing "direct government intervention" in the state broadcaster's decision not to air live a speech by opposition leader Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday.

A 46-year-old-man who was in critical condition Monday after fans of two rival soccer teams clashed in Iraklio, Crete, the previous day, was expected to be transferred to Athens on Monday to undergo a life-saving procedure.

Attiko Metro, the company in charge of the construction and management of the Athens underground system, has announced new traffic regulations during construction of its metro station in Piraeus, south of Athens.

Nikos Maziotis, the Revolutionary Struggle leader who was arrested this summer, claimed responsibility on Saturday for a large explosion at the Bank of Greece’s offices in central Athens on April 10.