Giorgos Kaminis

By Marcus Bensasson & Nikos Chrysoloras

The marble paving stones have been relaid in Athens’s Syntagma Square, the site of pitched battles between police and protesters during the worst of Greece’s economic crisis.

Author Nikos Dimou announced on Friday he was resigning as a member of To Potami, the centrist party led by journalist Stavros Theodorakis, after causing controversy with his public questioning of the belief that the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem to Greece on Easter Saturday is the result of a miracle.

Seventeen families are to move into a donated building in central Athens on Thursday as City Hall launches a social housing program aimed at tackling growing poverty and homelessness.

A project aimed at removing graffiti from the city center reached Monastiraki Square on Tuesday, where Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis noted that the campaign, which was launched last year, had the goal of keeping the city clean in association with local organizations and residents.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Friday chided Aris Spiliotopoulos, his New Democracy rival in May’s local elections, after the deputy likened Athens to Kabul in the wake of Thursday’s bomb explosion outside the Bank of Greece.

“He is undermining the city’s effort to improve in terms of tourism,” Kaminis said on Skai Radio.

Greece has an "international obligation" to build a mosque in its capital, Athens Mayor has argued, amid opposition and parts of society's criticism at the project.

As the capital prepares for the annual Cycling Tour of Athens fun race, this year scheduled for Sunday, April 6, municipal authorities on Wednesday announced plans to create the first bike lane connecting Gazi and Akadimia Platonos (Plato’s Academy) via Monastiriou Street.

School guards, cleaning staff and teachers who were placed in a labor pool and are now due to lose their jobs took over City Hall in Athens on Tuesday to protest their plight ahead of a 48-hour strike called by civil servants’ union ADEDY due to start on Wednesday.