Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki

The Culture Ministry said on Friday it will submit the final nomination file to UNESCO at the end of the month seeking the declaration of Crete's Spinalonga islet, with its impressive 16th century Venetian fortress, a World Heritage Site.

A worker hoists a piece of marble inside the Parthenon during ongoing restoration works on top of the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Monday. Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba and the ministry's General Secretary Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki were briefed on the progress of works during a visit to the site on Monday.

A few hours after the country's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) put off a meeting about the site of the capital's former airport at Elliniko, which is slated for a real estate development, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the resignation of the Culture Ministry's general secretary Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki.

In the wake of reports that Greece's Culture Ministry has raised fresh obstacles to Chinese group Cosco's plans to develop the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), the country's conservative opposition on Wednesday attacked the leftist-led government saying that its "ideological obsessions" were putting off foreign investors.

A few days before Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras heads off to Beijing to take part in the Belt and Road Initiative Forum in search of investors, Chinese group Cosco is faced with a fresh obstacle in its plans to develop the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) as the Ministry of Culture says it wants to acquire OLP buildings.