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Under-fire PM pledges civil defence improvements following summer of destruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsprotection capabilities. Among other things, the PM promised to hire more firefighters and forest rangers
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Government sets out fiscal plan, prepares multi-bill in shadow of deadly wildfire
PoliticsGreek Politicsand is believed to have damaged or destroyed some homes. The authorities were troubled repeatedly by forest
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Firefighting capabilities beefed up as blazes and water shortages weigh on government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsForest Fire Information System (EFFIS), almost 8,500 hectares had been burnt by July 15, which
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politicsin areas including parts of western Greece, Attica and the island of Chios burned through forest
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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