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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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Sino-Greek engagement: Path to 'win-win cooperation' is not always linear
Agora, that is not the full story of Sino-Greek engagement. His ambassador to Greece, Ms. Zhang Qiyue can
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Greece, creditors seek progress at Eurogroup on key differences holding up review
EconomyProgrammeGreece and its lenders head into Monday’s Eurogroup with differences on several key issues that will have to be resolved if the second review is to conclude in the days ahead. The Greek ministers and the institutions’ mission chiefs held a lengthy telec...
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Feb budget primary surplus confirmed at 840 mln, as revenues overperform
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance for the first two months of 2022 was confirmed to be a surplus of 840 million euros, compared to a deficit of 1.5 billion euros during the same period last year, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution d...
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Primary budget deficit at 1.69 bln euros in Q1 as tax revenues continue to overperform
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance for the first three months of 2022 came to a deficit of 1.69 billion euros, compared to a deficit of 3.41 billion euros in the same period last year, according to the preliminary Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data re...
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March budget primary balance short of target, but taxes continue to overperform
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance for the first three months of 2022 was confirmed at 1.65 billion euros, compared to a deficit of 13.4 billion euros during the same period last year, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released...
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Newsletter 92 - 14/10/2016
Mavrapidi and Militsa Kamvisi became known around the world after they were pictured holding... year, when a country already rattled by the dramatic developments flowing from its economic crisis...’ EFSF holdings in the ECB’s quantitative easing (QE) programme, and increased interbank repos coupled
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora. The glory was fleeting. Within a few months of holding the Olympics, Greece became the first EU country... of money and even some school buses are being put out of service. This is a dramatic change
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