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Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 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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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
Societythe 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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Tsipras tries to take lead in fire response amid picture of confusion
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs the investigation into the Mati fire proceeds and more reports of the apparent mishandling... to the bottom of the “how and why” of the Mati tragedy and to ensure that it would not happen again. Echoing... latched onto over the past days, Tsipras highlighted the role played in the Mati disaster by illegal
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societyin the aftermath of the deadly Mati wildfire of the previous summer, for which Mitsotakis laid the blame... the first anniversary of Mati, in no small measure thanks to the public anger stemming from SYRIZA’s... focussed more narrowly on what went wrong with the evacuation of Mati, and made recommendations
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The arduous road of privatisation in Greece
AgoraThis week two developments at the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) made headline news. First, the Greek privatisation agency confirmed its medium-term revenue targets. The HRADF’s chief executive officer, Paschalis Bouchoris, in charge since August of this year, argued that TAIPED
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Samaras strays out of line in search for new normal
Agoraattack. Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday evening, Front National’s Vice-President Florian Philippot drew
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Alpha Bank posts net profits of 65.2 mln in Q1, NPEs fall for fifth quarter
EconomyBankingwas reduced from 7 billion ini Q4 to 4.8 billion in Q1, declining again to 3 billion in May. ECB
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Athens braces for Erdogan bargaining at NATO summit
PoliticsForeign Policywas spying for Athens. On Saturday, Turkish authorities reportedly arrested a man named Mohamed Amar
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Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
Agoraand at the Jakarta School of Public Policy, Indonesia, where he is also head of the Economics Concentration. He
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Why is Europe worrying about SYRIZA?
Agoraand at the Jakarta School of Public Policy, Indonesia, where he is also head of the Economics
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