Government eyes detour in controversial Elliniko sale

The government is reportedly prepared to take the matter of the stalled Elliniko investment to the Council of State, the country's highest legal body, if the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) decides to raise obstacles to the project by declaring a part of the plot in question to be of archaeological interest.

KAS, the country's top advisory body on the protection of antiquities, failed again last week - for a third time - to reach a decision on whether to approve the project, and its 17-member committee will reconvene tomorrow.

But the repeated delays that have held up the real estate development on the site of the old airport in southern Athens have punched holes in the leftist-led coalition's pro-investment narrative.

In order to break the deadlock, sources say the government will - rather than oppose KAS directly if it doesn't give its approval -...