Athens Municipal council

Walking through the bustling streets of central Athens, whether as a resident or a visitor, or taking in the view of the sprawling, densely built capital from a balcony on one of its nearby hills, it’s nearly impossible to grasp that less than two centuries ago, this city was merely a tiny dot on the map.

A unanimous decision was taken by the Athens Municipal Council on Wednesday for the creation of a monument for the victims of the Tempe train crash in February 2023. 

Ilias Kasidiaris, the convicted former spokesman of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has resigned from the Athens Municipal Council after being sworn into office in late December.

After the ambitious vision of creating a large traffic-free zone in Athens more or less fizzled out at the end of the previous decade, the Athens Municipal Council breathed new life into the project on Monday after approving a proposal for an extended pedestrian network and a drastic reduction of cars in the city center.

Representatives of all political parties on the Athens municipal council snubbed the spokesman for neonazi Golden Dawn in City Hall's first session on Monday, reports said on Tuesday.

The Athens municipal council has appointed Giorgos Broulias as the caretaker mayor of the Greek capital after the resignation last week by Giorgos Kaminis so he can run in the European Parliament elections later in the month on the ticket of Movement for Change (KINAL).

The Athens Municipal council on Monday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a recommendation by Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis that the far-right Golden Dawn party not be allowed to use public spaces to hold pre-election rallies.
"We will not give Golden Dawn any of the available public spaces for pre-election promotion because it functions as a criminal organization," he said.