Kolonaki

Two campaign groups seeking World War II reparations from Germany are planning to stage a protest march from Parliament to the German Embassy in the central district of Kolonaki at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

Police cordoned off Skoufa Street in the central Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki oN Friday morning after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb had been planted outside a National Bank of Greece branch there.

Police and bomb disposal experts rushed to the scene after to warning calls were made to Ethnos and Eleftherotypia newspapers shortly before 10 a.m.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Rental rates for offices in Athens posted a fresh year-on-year decline of 14.5 percent in the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by certified surveyors Geoaxis.