Athens Court of First Instance

The Greek Police (ELAS) has ordered an internal investigation into the police's response to Monday's attack on officers by a group of self-styled anarchists outside the Athens Court of First Instance which left three policemen injured.

An Athens Court of First Instance prosecutor has brought criminal charges of fraud against four Greek companies believed to have pocketed millions of euros in European Commission subsidies while judicial authorities have asked their counterparts in Brussels to establish whether Commission officials who approved the subsidies also made illicit profits, it emerged on Thursday.

A strike by Public Power Corporation (PPC) workers was called off on Sunday night, with attention now shifting to the parliamentary vote on legislation allowing the electricity monopoly to be privatized.

The government announced on Saturday that it is issuing civil mobilization orders to strike Public Power Corporation (PPC) workers after the Athens Court of First Instance ruled on Friday that their strike, which caused brief power outages across the country, was illegal.

A court was expected to rule on Friday night on whether a strike by Public Power Corporation (PPC) workers was legal, with the government ready to issue civil mobilization orders to end the employees’ actions, which has led to power cuts in some parts of Greece.

As workers of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) entered the second day of a strike protesting plans for the company's part-privatization, an Athens Court of First Instance was on Friday to rule on the legality of their action which resulted in brief power cuts across the country.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by the Finance Ministry for a lower court ruling ordering the ministry to rehire hundreds of laid-off cleaning staff to be frozen.

The country’s top court rejected the ministry’s appeal, for a temporary order to freeze a decision by the Athens Court of First Instance, less than 24 hours after it was lodged.

The Finance Ministry said on Thursday that it would appeal a court ruling ordering the temporary rehiring of hundreds of cleaning staff who were suspended eight months ago as part of a civil service overhaul.

Fired Finance Ministry cleaners blocked the entrance to the ministry on Thursday protesting the Greek government's failure to comply with an Athens court decision earlier this month that they be reinstated.

Police are at the scene, but have not intervened.

An Athens court has accepted an appeal by hundreds of Finance Ministry cleaners who were put into a so-called mobility scheme of forced transfers and dismissals, the womens' lawyer Yiannis Karouzos said on Friday, referring to a "landmark decision."

According to Karouzos, the Athens Court of First Instance upheld the appeal by the 397 workers, ordering that the women be rehired.