Thessaloniki

Members of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) confiscated over 1.3 million packs of contraband cigarettes in a warehouse located the area of Kalochori, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, Greek police said in a statement on Wednesday.

A truck bearing Bulgarian plates and heating devices were also discovered in the warehouse, according to early reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian Railways restored on Tuesday evening the international rail traffic with Greece and Bulgaria on the entire stretch from Belgrade to Thessaloniki and Sofia.

On Wednesday, Serbian Railways will get back to normal the international passenger traffic from Belgrade to Montenegro and Macedonia.

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos claimed late on Sunday that SYRIZA’s strategy of trying to turn local and European Parliament elections into a referendum on the government failed on Sunday.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has challenged voters to show that “Greece has the stability it deserves” in next Sunday’s European Parliament elections and second round of local polls after voting in the first round on Sunday brought mixed results for the conservatives.

Opponents of plans to privatize EYATH, the state-run company that provides the northern port city of Thessaloniki with water and sewage services, hope to reverse the process by putting it to a referendum on Sunday.

A train connecting Bulgaria's capital Sofia and Greece's port city of Thessaloniki will continue operating from Saturday, May 10.

Two second-class wagons, one from Bulgaria and one from Greece, will travel daily between the two cities, according to a press release of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) cited by Dnevnik.bg.

Pedestrians in the northern port city of Thessaloniki will once more be able to stroll along Nikis Avenue from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday as part of a scheme by local authorities to gauge reaction to a possible permanent pedestrianization of the thoroughfare.

Ji Hyun Kwon, 'The Guilty'

By Harry van Versendaal

The PhotoBiennale, the country's largest photography event, is back with the third and final chapter of its “Time, Place, Logos” trilogy.

Organized by the Museum of Photography in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, the group exhibition gets under way on May 9 and will run through the end of the summer.

THESSALONIKI - Foreign ministers of the EU member states and the Western Balkan countries attending a ministerial conference in Thessaloniki Thursday expressed their support for European integration of the Western Balkan region and announced a EUR 1 billion pre-accession assistance by 2020.

"EU membership top priority for government"

THESSALONIKI -- Full-fledged EU membership is the top priority for the new Serbian government, Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said.

He made the statement on Thursday at a meeting of EU and Western Balkan foreign ministers in Thessaloniki, Greece.