Geography of Greece

The Panhellenic Seamen’s Union (PNO) on Friday said that it will prevent ferry boats whose owners owe workers money from running their regular services from Thursday, March 27.

PNO said that it will start at the port of Piraeus and extend its action to other ports until overdue salaries are settled.

Greece has given the only bidder in a deal to develop the former Athens airport of Hellinikon a week to improve its offer, the country's privatisations agency HRADF said on Wednesday.

Three times the size of Monaco, Hellenikon, one of Europe's biggest real estate projects, is crucial for the debt-laden country to meet its 2014 privatisations target.

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One in every two small and medium-sized Greek enterprises is facing the threat of closure within 2014, while for very small businesses the risk concerns two out of three, according to a Marc survey conducted for the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (GSEVEE) and presented on Tuesday in Thessaloniki.

A 30-year-old priest from Thessaloniki who is alleged to have swindled tens of thousands of euros from 166 unsuspecting Greeks by promising them jobs that never materialized is to defend himself against fraud charges on Thursday before an investigating magistrate.

By Ilias Bellos

Trainose is set to expand its cargo services even further following the success of its Athens-Thessaloniki route by launching a second daily service on that line and planning routes to Skopje and Belgrade twice a week.

A 48-year-man was arrested on Saturday in Elassona in Larissa, central Greece, over charges of possessing unregistered antiquities.

The suspect was detained after officers discovered three Roman bronze coins at his residence.

They also found a gas pistol and a small amount of cannabis.

The Venetis 1948 bakery chain has invested 3 million euros in a big new outlet in a neoclassical building on Omonia Square in the center of Athens that covers a surface area of 1,200 square meters.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Greece's biggest Jewish community said Monday it has taken Germany to Europe's top human rights court, seeking the return of a huge ransom paid to Nazi occupiers more than 70 years ago to free thousands of slave laborers — who were still sent subsequently to German death camps.

A 47-year-old Georgian national sustained injuries after being shot by unknown assailants late on Monday in the district of Nikaia in Piraeus.

The victim was transferred to a local hospital, while a police investigation was underway to determine the motive behind the attack.