Giorgos Papanikolaou

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis visited the 2nd Primary School of Glyfada, located south of Athens, on Wednesday for the traditional blessing ceremony marking the official start of the school year. They were accompanied by Glyfada Mayor Giorgos Papanikolaou.

Greek army specialists destroyed an unexploded World War II bomb on Thursday discovered during work on a massive urban development project at the old Ellinikon International Airport near Glyfada, a coastal area south of Athens.

The mayors of Glyfada and Alimos, Giorgos Papanikolaou and Andreas Kondylis, on Friday lodged a joint legal suit over the marine pollution wreaked by an oil leak from a tanker that sunk last weekend off Salamina.

The ecological disaster caused by the sinking of an oil tanker near the island of Salamina has draw attention by the international media, as the pollution is spreading to Piraeus, despite efforts and reassurances by the competent authorities that the damage would be contained.

Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas met with mayors of districts in southeast Athens to discuss the refugee and migrant center at the old Greek Air Force facilities and Hellenikon Airport.

A number of top New Democracy officials met on Wednesday in the absence of conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who was in Brussels, to discuss the party?s future, Kathimerini understands.