The port of Lavrio has become a major attraction for many companies as the completion of the new modern port station and the port works, the close distance from the Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" and the easy access to "Attiki Odos" along with the imminent extension of the urban railway have offered extrovertive characteristics aiming at the creation of additional facilities to the port and the economic development of the wider area.

German auction house Gorny & Mosch is putting up for auction, this October, ancient Greek coins, some from Amphipolis, whose origin is unclear.

A jihadist arrested in Belgium on charges of participating in jihadist militant units in Syria and Iraq, had not just passed through Greece, but had also obtained a legal residence permit here.