After taking office the new Minister of Urban Planning and Environmental Tina Birbili canceled the applicable law until then and gave a six-month "amnesty" for owners of illegal buildings.

The open market, which is organized every Thursday on Idra street was the best cover for terrorists to carry weapons to their apartment-hideaway in Kipseli and go unnoticed. Among the many trucks parked to unload goods among the people and boxes of items, large packages of explosives and weapons were brought into the building unnoticed by neighbors, reports Ethnos newspaper.

"Love City" Thessaloniki, as the city is known among all Greeks welcomes the beginning of the 21th International Photographers Meeting with dozens of exhibitions entitled "Topos", which will continue from April until September.

"I do not demonize nor am I enthusiastic about the participation of the International Monetary Fund in the plan for assistance to Greece," said Minister of Finance George Papakonstantinou and added he is a "reasonable optimist" on the 2010 budget execution.