Christos Spirtzis

Three central Athens metro stations - Omonia, Monastiraki and Metaxourgeio - are to stay open on the weekend to host homeless people as temperatures are forecast to plummet again.

Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis, who ordered stations to open last weekend for the same reason, said the measure would be extended again if necessary.

A solution to the problem regarding work on the runway at Thessaloniki's Makedonia Airport will likely come from Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis, who is expected to postpone the implementation of the terminal's upgrade until September 2017.

Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis announced Friday that OSY, the transport authority that manages the capital's aging fleet of buses, would receive 500 new vehicles in due course.

His pledge came a few hours after a bus burst into flames on the capital's Mesogeion Avenue near Neo Psychico.

Greek ministers are trying to raise fresh obstacles to foreign investments despite the prime minister's invitations to investors to put their money in Greece.

Energy cooperation, regional security and the management of migration flows will be on the agenda as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras holds talks with Egyptian and Cypriot leaders in Cairo Tuesday.

Greek air traffic controllers abandoned plans for a relay strike called off after a meeting with the country's Transport Minister, Greek daily Kathimerini reports.

Flights to or from Greece would have been halted for four days (October 9-10, 12-13) if the controllers had proceeded with their action.

European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici was the first to say it, albeit in tactful terms, followed more tersely by European Stability Mechanism chief Klaus Regling: Certain Greek ministers are dragging their feet and undermining the implementation of the bailout. They did not use those exact words, but there was no mistaking their meaning.

The government is again trying to hamper the privatization process of Rosco, the company responsible for the maintenance of Trainose rail carriages, managing to put it off by at least a couple of weeks.

The government is again trying to hamper the privatization process of Rosco, the company responsible for the maintenance of Trainose rail carriages, managing to put it off by at least a couple of weeks.

The publisher of fringe newspaper Makeleio, Stefanos Chios, was arrested outside his home on Tuesday, after a lawsuit was filed against him by Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis for a "slanderous" and offensive front page on Monday.

He was expected to appear before a prosecutor on Tuesday afternoon.