Tourism in Greece

New changes to Athens bus routes from Monday

A second wave of changes to bus services in Athens is due to be implemented on Monday, December 15.

Eight bus lines are to change routes: 704, 701, 747, 527, 501, 640, 444 and B8.

Also, the Piraeus-Acropolis-Syntagma express line introduced in May to help transport cruise passengers will stop.

It is set to start again in March.

Former sport center chief accused of embezzling 800,000 euros in one month

A former president of the National Youth Center of Aghios Cosmas, in southern Athens, is accused of embezzling at least 800,000 euros from the organization’s coffers while a probe continues to ascertain whether the official may have stolen more during his tenure from August 2013 to August this year.

Traffic accidents third cause of death in Greece, seminar hears

Greece has one of the highest traffic accident rates in Europe, according to data presented on Monday at a seminar in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, by the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace together with the Hellenic Institute of Transport (IMET/EKETA).

Romania, Poland and Latvia were also shown to be high on the list, the conference was told.

Contraband cigarette shipment found in abandoned boat off Zakynthos

Coast guard officers on the Ionian island of Zakynthos on Monday discovered a large shipment of contraband cigarettes in the hold of a 55-meter cargo ship that had run aground on a beach.

Authorities are investigating where the Turkish-flagged Amaranthus had sailed from and the location of its crew, which appeared to have abandoned ship.

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