Tag Archives: Spirtzis

The wiretapping scandal in Greece reached a new level on Friday, when SYRIZA MP and former Citizen Protection Minister Christos Spirtzis (SYRIZA) filed a lawsuit at the country Supreme Court. His phone was wiretapped with spyware Predator, in the same period as of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and journalist Thanassis …

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Urgent maintenance works on the construction and retaining walls channeling the river of Ilissos underground will disrupt the operation of the Athens Tram for an unspecified period of time. Starting on Friday, October 19th 2018, the Tram will no longer operate up to end station <Syntagma> but will halt at …

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The government intends to abolish the laws that made non-payment of road tolls a criminal offence and led many people to court, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis said on Sunday, speaking at an event in Oropos. He also promised to arrive at an agreement with the Nea Odos concessionaires …

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After the outcry about the endless queues for commuters awaiting to have issued the new electronic cards, Greece’s Transport Minister, Christos Spirtzis decided to extend the deadline and allow holder of the old October monthly cards to be used until November 15th 2017. According to state ERT TV, the minister …

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Greece will thoroughly reform the traffic penalties code and will impose fines according to offender’s income criteria. It looks as if foreigner drivers will be exempted as it will be up to Greek Finance Ministry to check the offender’s income declaration. The road traffic penal code will be thoroughly reformed, …

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The chaos is about to break out and commuters in Athens may see themselves using public transport means for free after Transport and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis ruled that the old paper tickets will be used only until the end of October and old paper monthly cards will no longer …

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The unions of employees at Athens fix-track transport means announced that they will stop issuing the new electronic smart tickets and cards as of tomorrow, Thursday, October 5th 2017. In a statement issued late Wednesday afternoon, the union of workers at the Metro, the Tram and Urban Train ISAP complained …

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Mmmm… this is the kind of innovation SYRIZA claims to love and promote If it only doesn’t collide with the long established and powerful unions. A good old Greek practice that brings votes  and secures power. Out of the blue (?), the Transport Ministry in Athens decided to draft a …

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Greece’s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis criticized the German-Greek consortium Fraport Hellas that has leased 14 regional airports since the beginning of the year. “Fraport does not operate the airports better than the Civil Aviation, we have problems even with the cleanness in the toilets,” Spirtzis said in an …

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The Greek government tries to persuade opposition parties and society that the transfer of utility companies in the Privatization Fund does not automatically mean that they will be sold. Three government ministers – Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Transportation Minister Christos Spirtzis and Energy Minister Panos Skouletis -, insisted in claiming …

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German Fraport will impose an extra fee of 13 euro on every ticket for flights using the fourteen regional airport the German company acquired The charge was included in the terms of the concessions agreement signed between the Greek State and Fraport, daily Ta NEA notes. The extra charge will …

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Ticket fare for public transport means in Athens will rise by 16% as of 1.1. 2016. Passengers of Metro, Tram, Urban train ISAP, Trolley bus and Blue buses will have to dig deeper in their pockets and find another €0.20 if they want to go soewhere for whatever reasons. No, …

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I think we have turned into a country where everyone considers he owns a free pass to transform into a law every crap that comes into his mind. The Executive Director  of the Athens Public Transport company (OASA) seems to be one of them. OASA CEO Grigoris Dimitriadis told the …

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It comes as expected. Hardly they were sworn-in, ministers of Greece’s new coalition left-wing/nationalists government SYRIZA-Independent Greeks made a revolutionary step: they announced the halt of  privatizations. Not that privatizations of state assets were been moving in the same speed the Troika has been demanding in the last five years. …

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