Postponement

"Why not? Didn't our predecessors do exactly the same thing?" That's more or less the excuse we've been hearing over the past four years, and especially over the past few days as Parliament scrambles to pass as many laws as possible in the small window granted by the postponement of the announcement for early elections.

Conservative New Democracy on Thursday accused the leftist-led government of consistently putting off the demolition of hundreds of illegally-built structures in Athens since it came to power in 2015, presenting Interior Ministry documents ordering "temporary" postponements.

The Central Archaeological Council (KAS) failed to reach a decision on Tuesday as to whether all or part of the plot of Athens's former airport at Elliniko constitutes an archaeological site.