Giorgos Kaminis

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has sent a letter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calling for immediate measures to combat the proliferation of the public use and dealing of drugs in the capital.

Kaminis described the problem as "unprecedented" with central neighborhoods of Athens having been transformed into drug dealing havens.

The Greek government has "completed its lifecycle" and anyone who helps it stay in power will be making a "historic mistake," Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis, who is also a member of the new center-left Movement for Change's political council, said on Friday in response to a question about whether he would consider working with the ruling leftist SYRIZA party.

A lawmaker of the extreme right Golden Dawn party was handed a four month suspended jail sentence on Monday for attempting to physically assault Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis in 2013.

An Athens court found Giorgos Germenis guilty of verbally abusing and trying to assault Kaminis during an event hosted by the Athens municipality on May 2, 2013 in the capital.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to take action in response to a recent spike in anarchist-related vandalism and violence in the downtown area, accusing the leftists leader of "not doing his job properly."

Under-fire Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris has received support from his counterpart in Athens, Giorgos Kaminis, who descried his colleague as a "true patriot."

Boutaris was widely criticised after suggesting this week that Thessaloniki should think about renaming its Makedonia Airport. He made the proposal in the context of the discussions between Greece and the Former

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Friday welcomed his counterpart from Skopje Petre Silegov for talks at City Hall.

The visit comes as diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are engaged in United Nations-mediated negotiations aimed at resolving a 25-year-old dispute over the latter's name.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and his Skopje counterpart Petre Shilegov have thrown their weight behind diplomatic efforts to settle the chronic name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has invited his counterpart from Skopje, Petre Shilegov, on an official visit to the Greek capital amid ongoing name talks between the two officials' respective countries.

Shilegov is due to arrive in Athens on Friday morning and to meet with Kaminis in his office at City Hall before making statements to the press.

When asked in an interview on Skai TV on Friday morning why the state seems so absent from the center of the Greek capital, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis answered in two words: incompetence and indifference. He didn't expand on the topic, just said what he wanted to say as briefly as possible.

Sounding quite pleased with himself, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Sunday announced a municipal program to register homeless people in the center of the Greek capital. The program was launched on Saturday.