Christos Spirtzis

The case of the "mystery flight" of a Venezuelan government airplane to Athens on Saturday was raised in Parliament on Wednesday by main opposition New Democracy.

The damage to roads, buildings and infrastructure caused by the torrential rain and gales that hit the island of Crete earlier in the week will exceed 100 million euros, according to Regional Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis.

He said the precise cost will be known after a team of Infrastructure Ministry experts and local engineers complete their assessment of the damage.

Crete will receive 10 million euros in emergency aid after a fierce storm caused extensive damage to roads, buildings and infrastructure, Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis said on Wednesday.

Speaking to Sto Kokkino FM, Spirtzis said the Finance Ministry had given the green light for the distribution of financial aid late on Tuesday.

Europe's Transport future for a more inclusive union, under the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 was debated in the European Parliament between the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu, and Greek Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis, New Europe reports.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and members of his cabinet are in Belgrade on Friday for the second Greek-Serbian High-Level Cooperation Council and the sixth High Council of Cooperation between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia.

The Transport Ministry is reportedly mulling the introduction of zone pricing to the public transport system in the bid to increase revenues.

A month after the disastrous wildfires on the outskirts of Attica that claimed the lives of 96 people and destroyed dozens of homes and thousands of hectares of land, the government approved additional aid for victims, as Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis conducted separate visits to Mati, the coastal settlement east of the capital where doze

As local authorities in northern Greece carried out a small-scale demolition in an apparently symbolic move, the main opposition accused the leftist-led government of hypocrisy, pointing to documents suggesting that it put off the demolition of the illegal structures it is now pledging to knock down. 

Attica fire victims will be able to submit their applications to receive a lump sum of 5,000 euros in aid on Tuesday, according to Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis.

"We have a safe estimate today on the damages sustained by buildings, as the inspections have been completed," Spirtzis said on Saturday.

Greece's second private railway company, following the privatization of Trainose, is about to make its first journey on the Greek public rail network. Greek-Austrian consortium Rail Cargo Logistic Goldair is active only in cargo transport, as the name suggests, and its first outing using its own carriages will serve the Sindos-Idomeni route in northern Greece.