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Epic Fail: Athens Mayor seeks to excavate “Plato ‘s State”

May 16, 2023 FEATURED, Greece, Politics Comments Off on Epic Fail: Athens Mayor seeks to excavate “Plato ‘s State”

“Archaeological excavations are being carried out because underneath we have an entire state, the state of Plato, which we have covered,” Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis said about the redevelopment in the district of the Greek capital Plato Academy. Instead of going to a bookstore or even do a google …

Opponents of Exachia metro “are not even Greeks,” claims Athens Mayor

August 24, 2022 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Opponents of Exachia metro “are not even Greeks,” claims Athens Mayor

Many of those opposing the construction of metro station in Exarchia and the redevelopment of nearby Strefi Hill “are not even Greeks,” Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis has claimed. His allegation triggered an outrage on social media. Speaking to Skai TV, Bakoyiannis said that the majority of permanent residents do want …

Athens Mayor files against private electricity company for deliberately overcharging municipality fees

March 2, 2022 Economy 2

The City of Athens has filed a lawsuit against a private electricity supplier for deliberate overcharges in municipality fees that are collected via the electricity bills. The company has been doubling the rate of calculating the fees private citizens and businesses have to pay per square meter of home or …

Athens mayor to revamp Syntagma Square, Panepistimiou Avenue again

July 13, 2021 Greece, Politics 1

Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said that a project to revamp the lower, commercial end of Syntagma Square in downtown Athens is expected to start within August and will be followed shortly by “permanent” interventions on adjacent Panepistimiou Street. “When we talk about permanent work, we mean – to put it …

Athens Mayor admits “Great Walk” didn’t walk; €1.8mn thrown away

September 23, 2020 FEATURED, Greece 3

The ambitious “Great Walk of Athens” didn’t walk, it was just a “pilot and temporary program” and a “simulation”, Mayor Costas Bakoyiannis said on Tuesday announcing a …new project for downtown Athens. What certainly walked to some pockets were 1,8 million euros from the Municipality’s cash registers. Money that were …

Athens Great Walk leads to Athens Great Jam with commuters as lab rats

June 15, 2020 Greece, Politics 6

The overambitious plan of Athens Municipality the Great Walk of Athens turned into the Great Traffic Jam on Monday morning, when local authorities decreased the six lanes of Panepistimiou Avenue into three for vehicles including public transport means like buses and trolley buses. Central roads in downtown Athens but also …

Defense Minister Kammenos freezes US deal for the upgrade of F-16

November 5, 2017 Greece, Politics 1

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos announced on Sunday that he stops the procedure regarding the upgrading of Greek F-16 fighter jets by US companies; a 2.4-billion-dollar project that was agreed upon during the visit of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Washington last month Kammenos’ decision came after New Democracy MP …

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