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  1. Mitsotakis steps up pressure on coalition over wildfire deaths
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    that the accounts of survivors of the Mati fire have more value and are more truthful than the explanations... for the deaths in Mati. One of the survivors has already filed a law suit and other legal action... knows that the muddled handling of the Mati disaster by the government means that he has to simply

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  2. ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
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    on Saturday that this debt settlement scheme would be the last of its kind. Mati measures Tuesday also marked once year since the devastating wildfire at Mati, northeast of Athens, which caused 102 deaths. Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended a memorial service in Mati hours after announcing that some 4,000

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  3. Wildfires provide familiar test for government
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    has stuck to since coming to power in 2019, having seen the damage that the deadly wildfire in Mati... to the fact that it had prevented a Mati-style human disaster. Greeks abroad While all the attention... elections. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus said that removing the barriers was “a matter of respect.” Many

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  4. SYRIZA launches internal dialogue to tackle questions of identity, future direction
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    of the Mati wildfires in the summer of 2018 when he was interior minister. However, what is currently being

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  5. Newsletter 325 - 28/01/2022

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    of coordination among authorities during the deadly fire in Mati, when SYRIZA was in power in 2018... for Civil Protection, Transport, Energy, Citizens’ Protection and Interior. It is certain

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  6. Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020

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    PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...

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  7. Newsletter 172 -27/07/2018

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    questioned The deadly wildfire in Mati, northeast of Athens, which claimed more than 80 lives has... to journalists that there is evidence which points to the fires in Kinetta, west of Athens, and Mati being the product of arson. The officials also explained that the speed with which the Mati blaze, which

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  8. PM prioritises saving lives as govt fire strategy comes under more scrutiny
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    of the Mati fire in 2018, which caused more than 100 deaths and for which the then SYRIZA government... in connection to what happened at Mati, ND has made saving lives in such situations a priority... – in contrast, for example, to the Mati fire, when gale-force winds were blowing. There were also

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  9. Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism

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    in Kinetta and Mati being the product of arson. The officials also explained that the speed with which the Mati blaze, which caused so many deaths, advanced due to gale-force winds made efforts to evacuate...), the effort to combat several large fires around Athens at the same time and the fact that Mati

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  10. Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?

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    the Mati fire now holds the record of the deadliest peacetime disaster in Greece... week’s fire at Mati was on a different scale. It was very brief in duration, according to the most..., and the 10 whole days that the most severe blazes raged in 2007. The Mati fire burned in all 12.7

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