Christos Spirtzis

The European Parliament began investigations this week into the wiretapping scandal that has rocked Greece while a former minister told the prosecutor on Friday that his phone was also compromised. Christos Spirtzis, a lawmaker for the main opposition leftist Syriza...

"All building permits in Mati will be checked. We will tear down buildings wherever it is needed," stated Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis on Friday. Spirtzis made the statement in the aftermath of the deadly fires that literally obliterated...

An embarrassing photo has emerged of a Greek minister smoking indoors during an event in Thessaly as the government is supposedly trying to enforce widely-flouted anti-smoking  laws. The mayor of Trikala, a town in Thessaly that has banned smoking in public,...

Greek Police arrested 19 individuals, including a Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) manager and employees, who worked in a gang stealing railway equipment valued at over 7 million euros. The gang's activity, spread in several cities of Greece, began operations on...

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport's announcement to increase the speed limit on motorways; as part of the reform of the Road Traffic Code, has been met with great backlash from the Greek public. Minister Christos Spirtzis recently stated that...

Greece's Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Spirtzis on Tuesday launched an attack against German company Fraport for not sufficiently running the 14 regional airports that were privatized last year. Speaking on the radio station of the Athens Macedonia News...

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis on Wednesday officially opened the 27-km section of the Ionian highway between the Amfilochia junction and the Arta ring road, during a low-key ceremony held at the 124th km of the highway. The...

A preliminary report into the causes of the fatal train crash in the village of Adendro, near Thessaloniki, Greece, last week confirmed it was due to excessive speed, a preliminary report delivered to Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis showed on...

"We are opening roads. We are opening the road that was hindering the connection of Western Greece with the capital, we are opening the road to exit the crisis and supervision," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday said...

The most dangerous part of the road between Athens and Thessaloniki, the Tempi valley, is bypassed with this work, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday during the delivery ceremony. It is replaced by a short road that...