Transport Ministry

Air-traffic controllers are to begin four 24-hour rolling strikes on Sunday to protest new legislation outlining a restructuring of the Civil Aviation Authority.

The strike is expected to lead to cancellations of flights in and out of Greece for four days.

Air-traffic controllers are to begin four 24-hour rolling strikes on Sunday to protest the draft law regarding changes to the Civil Aviation Authority. The strike is expected to mean no flights in or out of Greece for four days.

After 12 days of strike action that has paralyzed bus transport in Thessaloniki, the head of the city's urban transport organization (OASTH), Christos Stefanidis, announced that the Transport Ministry had disbursed the money for striking workers to receive back pay and called on the protesters to go back to work.

Thessaloniki bus workers walked off the job for the 11th day in a row Tuesday, demanding three months in unpaid wages.

Responding to the protracted action, the Transport Ministry said that, in association with the Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization (OASTH), it would pay protesting workers a month in pending wages.

Thessaloniki bus workers walked off the job for the 11th day in a row on Tuesday, demanding three months in unpaid wages.

Responding to the protracted action, the Transport Ministry said that, in association with the Thessaloniki urban transport organization (OASTH), it would pay protesting workers a month in pending wages.

After a series of delays, the tender for the construction of Line 4 of the Athens metro is expected to be issued early next year.

The extension of the capital's metro network has been long anticipated by residents of the densely populated areas of Galatsi, Kypseli, Kaisariani and Zografou.

Members of anarchist group Rouvikonas held a sit-in at the Transport Ministry's inspectors department on Thursday, protesting at public transport ticket inspections. Ten people were detained, authorities said.

Bus stations in Bulgaria will be divided in three categories. They must have Wi-Fi, a web page and telephone connections. These are the regulatory changes proposed by Transport Minister, Ivaylo Moskovski.

Two members of the Council for Electronic Media (CEM), the broadcast media watchdog of Bulgaria, have been elected by Parliament, local media report.

No debates have been held prior to the election.

The two members, Sofiya Vladimirova and Rozita Mihaylova-Elenova, were proposed by the biggest party GERB and the Bulgarian Democratic Center (BDC) respectively.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has refused to resign amid calls from a party of junior government ally Reformist Bloc that follow a corruption scandal in the road transport agency.

Moskovski has made clear he is ready to step down at the moment the Prime Minister asks him to do so.