Chalkidiki

A Hellenic Post employee in Halkidiki, northern Greece has been charged with forgery and embezzling 300,000 euros from two branches in the 2012-14 period.

The suspect embezzled funds, pensions and remittances while he was working at the post office branches in Kallikrateia and Kassandreia.

He was expected to appear before an investigative magistrate on July 4.

The Historical and Folklore Museum of Nikiti in Halkidiki, northern Greece, is currently hosting an exhibition of 22 lithographs by Gaspare Fossati, depicting the former Greek Orthodox Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia in the city then widely known as Constantinople.

Lightning sparked three wildfires in remote parts of the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the fire service.

Ground and air crews were battling blazes in the uplands of Kavourotrypes and Vourvourou on the Sithonia leg of the peninsula on Tuesday morning, after putting out another fire in Afytos on the Cassandra leg earlier.

The fourth Parthenon Film Festival will host three open-air cinema nights in the central square of the quaint village of Parthenonas, about 6 kilometers outside Neos Marmaras on Halkidiki's Sithonia peninsula. This year, the festival has picked movies that explore the notion of dreams, as a pleasurable experience, an enigmatic riddle and a nightmare.

Greece aims to resolve a long-standing standoff with Canada's Eldorado Gold Corporation over its development plans in the coming weeks, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.

Eldorado Gold will be planning its next moves after its vindication on Wednesday by an arbitration panel in its dispute with the Greek state over the mining unit at Madem Lakkos in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece. 

The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) has again warned that overtaxation could keep the country's growth rates at subdued levels, while the obstacles the government is putting in the way of big investment projects such as the Halkidiki gold mines (Eldorado Gold) and the development of the former airport at Elliniko (Lamda Development) serve as a deterrent to other would-be investors.

Eldorado Gold said on Thursday it would freeze investments in its Skouries gold mine in Greece, taking a tough stand in its battle with the country's government.

Eldorado's investment is one of the biggest in Greece and has long been viewed as a test of the country's resolve to attract foreign capital.

A 32-year-old man who has allegedly confessed to taking part in the contract killing of lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos in Athens last month was remanded to custody pending trial on Thursday.

The Albanian national gave a brief account of his actions to an investigating magistrate, in which he reportedly admitted to his role in the fatal shooting of the prominent criminal lawyer.

A 32-year-old man who has allegedly confessed to taking part in the contract killing of lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos in Athens last month was remanded to custody pending trial on Thursday.

The Albanian national gave a brief account of his actions to an investigating magistrate, in which he reportedly admitted to his role in the fatal shooting of the prominent criminal lawyer.