Elliniko-Argyroupoli

The Metropolitan Community Clinic will be holding its annual Christmas bazaar at the Community Center of Elliniko-Argyroupoli, on the premises of the former US Air Force base on Vouliagmenis Avenue, on Sunday, December 4. There will be a sale of handmade items as well as games and activities for children. Also on the day's program is a barbecue and various homemade treats.

The draft budget tabled on Monday in Parliament provides for major privatization projects to start fetching revenues into the state coffers from 2017, as they will not be completed before the new year.

They concern the regional airports, gas grid operator DESFA, railway service operator Trainose, the Elliniko development in southern Athens etc.

Heavy rain and storms were expected in western, central and northern parts of Greece on Tuesday, while winds were set to reach speeds of 6 Beaufort in the Aegean, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) reported.

Heavy rain and storms were expected in western, central and northern parts of Greece on Tuesday, while winds were set to reach speeds of 6 Beaufort in the Aegean, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) reported.

The ratification by Parliament of a bill for the privatization of the former airport plot at Elliniko, on the southern coast of Athens, is a very positive development, and particularly so as it was backed by a significant majority of MPs.

The bill for the concession of the old Athens airport at Elliniko to a consortium led by Lamda Development was tabled by the government in Parliament on Thursday without the clause proposed by the Culture Ministry.

That clause would have made the Culture Ministry a competent authority for all decisions related to the project, potentially hampering it in the process.

A clause the Culture Ministry had intended to insert into the concession bill for the development of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko will not be included after all, sources have said.

Arab entrepreneurs and state corporations are once again showing a reserved interest in the Greek market.

Four people were arrested at the weekend for participating in illegal races on a major avenue in the Elliniko area of southern Athens.

The four men, aged between 19 and 29, were detained as part of a wider sweep early Saturday morning by police who registered 147 traffic violations.

6,000 refugees and migrants are living in squalid conditions at the Hellinikon area in Attica, where the abandoned 2004 Olympic facilities are standing. Just a few meters from Poseidonos Avenue, running along the coast line of Attica, lies a modern day ‘Greek flavela’, with most people in the area completely oblivious of its existence.