Mitsotakis Kicks Off Long-Stalled Hellenikon Development
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS – It took longer than he promised – set back by more delays and then the COVID-19 pandemic, but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was there to watch bulldozers start razing buildings to begin the 8-billion euro ($8.99 billion) development of the abandoned Hellenikon International Airport. He was at the kick-off ceremony he hoped to hold by the end of 2019 after winning July 7 snap elections that year and ousting the anti-business Radical Left SYRIZA which buried the project for 4 ½ years, its hard-core elements opposed to foreign investment. It took nine years to get that far since the first bids were made, 10 years after the airport...