ATHENS, Greece -- Can't find the Parthenon? Help may be on the way. Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni said Monday that 3,000 volunteers will help visitors find their way to sporting venues and other sites during the Aug. 13-29...
...have our best face on display for the biggest ever event to occur in our city: the Olympic Games," Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni said. "We can use this event as a way to change our attitudes and our quality of life." Authorities have targeted...
...We are not perfect ... but I'm sure we will manage to pleasantly surprise the world," said Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni, who has appealed to residents to spruce up their buildings and stop littering. Projects such as the meddlesome...
...regulations and these regulations come from the laws and the laws must be implemented. That is what we are doing," said Dora Bakoyianni, Athens' first female mayor. Critics, led by some advocates for the legal prostitutes, claim the rules will drive...
...Olympics - faces delays and is being curtailed. "Yes, it's late, but it should be worth it," Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni told The Associated Press. "I think it will be finished." Athenians must be wondering why the square is being...
...surveillance would be increased. "I don't think panic is created by this kind of small incident," Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni said in Paris, where she was promoting the city. But worries still loom despite organizers' security spending of...
...the start of the games, compared to 15.9 percent in a May survey. No margin or error was provided. Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni sees the Olympic glass as half full. "The construction projects that tired everybody so much are finishing," she...
...continue operations. "We are doing everything which is humanly possible to have the maximum security," Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni said. "We have to show that modern Greece is able to organize very good Olympic Games." When her party, New Democracy...
...kind of establishment, and what the city of Athens decided was to implement this law, that's all," Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni said Wednesday. Sweden's vice prime minister and minister for gender equality, Margareta Winberg, said Wednesday...
...lifts, and you can see all the new sidewalks, roads and the colors of the building facades," said Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni. Improvements include a new tram designed to ease traffic congestion on the capital's busy streets. The trams...