Athens University of Economics and Business

Self-styled anarchists ran amok along Patission Street on Friday, vandalizing storefronts, the latest act in a spate of lawlessness in Athens.

Shortly after 10 a.m., hooded assailants damaged the façade of a branch of Hellenic Post (ELTA) and the glass fronts of two shops, according to police.

Self-styled anarchists resumed their violent activity on Friday morning in Athens attacking stores and a post office on Patission Street in central Athens.

A number of people who had their faces covered created damage to a series of stores and a Hellenic Post branch within a few dozen meters from the building of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The Education Ministry clashed with conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday over a recent spike in crime and lawlessness on Greek university campuses. 

Self-styled anarchist collectives have intensified their violent attacks on university campuses. At the same time, they have taken their campaign beyond the country's capital.

Academic chiefs meeting in Athens for the 86th Rectors' Summit on Friday condemned the most recent acts of vandalism at a university by anti-establishment and anarchist elements.

The attack occurred on Wednesday at Thessaloniki's University of Macedonia, when a group of hooded men smashed doors, windows and equipment with tire irons, scaring students and teachers.

Campaigning by candidates for the leadership of the new center-left party officially ends on Friday night, two days before elections take place on Sunday, with speeches by the leader of To Potami Stavros Theodorakis at Zappeion Hall in Athens and PASOK MEP Nikos Androulakis at the Vellidio Conference Hall in Thessaloniki.

In the latest incident of violence on a university campus, two people were beaten up on the grounds of the Athens University of Economics and Business last night, according to an announcement by the university's senate.

According to the announcement, two people, including an administrative employee of the university, were hurt in the attack by around eight youths.

The public fallout between Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold and the Greek government after the prior’s announcement on Monday it would suspend its large investment in the north of the country due to the government’s delays in issuing routine permits has put the leftist-led SYRIZA government at the centre of a storm of media attention, bringing up questions about whether it honestly promote

Three more candidates threw their hat into the race for the leadership of Greece's new center-left political party on Friday - the deadline to submit their nomination.

Adamantios Pepelasis, a Greek economics professor who taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of California and the Athens University of Economics and Business, died on Saturday at the age of 95.