Elliniko-Argyroupoli

In a bid to bolster his new pro-investment narrative amid signs that two major foreign projects face serious obstacles, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Wednesday chaired an "investment task force."

Commuters using the Athens Metro to the international airport and those planning to take OSE trains will have to reschedule their means of transportation for Thursday, September 14, as the Railway employees have declared a 24-hour strike in response to the signing of the sale of or TRAINOSE.

A committee of the Attica Decentralized Administration - a state body not related to the Attica Regional Authority - will on Thursday conduct an inspection of part of the plot of the old Athens airport at Elliniko to establish whether a forest exists there.

Investors continue to have a tough time in Greece, but the next few days will be crucial for two of the country's biggest projects: the gold mines in Halkidiki, northern Greece, and the development of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko. Thessaloniki airport has also felt some turbulence.

An eight hours marathon meeting of the Culture Ministry's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) to determine whether any plots of the capital's former airport at Elliniko, south of Athens, should be declared of archaeological interest ended without an agreement late Tuesday.

Concerns resurfaced about the outlook for a large investment on the site of the capital's old international airport at Elliniko, southern Athens, on Tuesday as members of the Culture Ministry's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) convened until late into the night to determine whether any parts of the plot should be declared of archaeological interest, a decision that could scupper the project

A bush fire has broken out in the suburb of Dafni in Athens, Wednesday. 15 firefighters with five firefighting vehicles are attempting to extinguish the flames. The area where the fire broke out at 3.30pm is behind Agios Ioannis Metro Station, at the intersection of Vouliagmenis Avenue with Kasomoulis Street.

On August 9, 1978, 39 years ago, the biggest air accident in Greece and perhaps in the world was avoided. The human factor played a key role in the development of the events of that day.

A B-747 Jumbo Jet of the Olympic Airways with 418 passengers and crew takes off from Elliniko airport of Athens to New York City. The wheels have not got off the ground yet when No3 engine ignites!

The saga over the Skouries gold mine project in the northern Greek region of Halkidiki, which is backed by Canadian gold-mining company Eldorado and has been dogged by controversy and setbacks for years now, reads like a bad soap opera.

Attica is bracing for work to start on road tunnel projects and other similar interventions currently planned for the next few years and budgeted at half a billion euros.

The aim is to improve quality of life and reduce traffic jams, while in some cases - such as at Elliniko - the projects are linked to major development and urban revamp plans.