Yiannis Boutaris

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Kir-Yianni winery in Imathia, in a short break from his two-day campaigning in northern Greece.

Mitsotakis was informed about the winery's operation by the founder and former Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris and his son Stelios, and later attended a lunch for him and his delegation near the vineyards.

After seven postponements, the trial began on Friday over the attack on the former mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, during the commemoration of the Genocide of the Pontians in May 2018 in White Tower Square.

Ioannina Mayor Moses Elisaf has taken the baton from his former Thessaloniki counterpart Yiannis Boutaris in "city diplomacy," having recently conducted a series of important meetings in Albania as part of an initiative to promote his city and develop closer ties with the neighboring country.

There is no question that either Nikos Tachiaos or Constantinos Zervas will be elected mayor of Thessaloniki on Sunday. What is at issue is whether either will be able to run the municipal authority.

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said on Friday that municipal officers will begin enforcing Greece's largely flouted smoking ban in all enclosed public spaces after the Easter holidays.
Speaking to journalists, Boutaris said smoking has continued in enclosed public spaces despite the ban.
"We are the only country where laws are not enforced," he said at a press briefing.

Outgoing Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris is among the prominent figures who have signed up to the political initiative Gefyra (meaning "bridge"), which publicized a text on Monday calling on the country's progressive forces to "block the path of the right and the extreme right."

Outgoing Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris is among the prominent figures who have signed up to the political initiative Gefyra (meaning "bridge"), which publicized a text on Monday calling on the country's progressive forces to "block the path of the right and the extreme right."

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said Friday that Jewish monuments will be repaired no matter how many times they are vandalized and urged people not to tolerate vandalism.

A prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has ordered an urgent investigation into the destruction by unknown vandals of a local Jewish memorial.

Prosecutor Evangelos Zarkantzias instructed police Monday to treat the attack on a monument marking a former Jewish cemetery as a breach of Greece's laws against racism, which carry harsher penalties than ordinary vandalism.

Twelve people, including the former governor for Central Macedonia Panagiotis Psomiadis, have been ordered to stand trial at a Thessaloniki misdemeanors court for an assault against the northern port city's Mayor Yiannis Boutaris last May.