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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
Agorathat is worthy of the lives of those 80+ people who perished in Mati. Sadly, there seems to be very... whose only purpose is to ensure that nobody has responsibility for anything. What happened in Mati... summer wind in eight years blew from the west, pushing the fire through homes in Mati at a blistering
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Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions
PoliticsGreek Politics. The head of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos visited Mati with TV cameras... of the coalition’s crisis management strategy. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Mati, the area... the high death toll to the gale-force winds and large amount of illegal construction in Mati
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Mitsotakis uses justice reform as election rallying cry in aftermath of Mati verdict
PoliticsGreek Politicsattributed the leniency of the Mati verdicts to changes to the penal code introduced by the SYRIZA-ANEL...With the verdict of the Mati trial still fresh, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to rally... in charge of the botched response to the deadly Mati wildfire of 2018 as an example of a lumbering
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Reshuffle expected to follow minister's departure in wake of Mati disaster
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeadly wildfire in Mati, for which the death toll has risen to 90. It was confirmed on Friday... the image of what was a strong response by authorities to the Mati fire. New Democracy demanded... as dangerous as the one in Mati, which ripped through thousands of homes. A report in Kathimerini
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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SYRIZA states intention to continue as minority govt after ANEL leaves coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAgreement, despite the expected departure of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) from... with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL... in SYRIZA see the divorce from ANEL as a positive, considering that it was a political compromise
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Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere is speculation that political fallout from the wildfire in Mati, where the death toll... is focusing on illegal construction in Mati, to be conducted. Criticism of the way that authorities... being diverted to Mati, adding to the death toll. Kathimerini newspaper published on Thursday
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Athens waits for EU recovery fund outcome as new Mati fire claims emerge
PoliticsGreek Politicsessentially accepting a new bailout for Greece, with all the toxicity that concept entails. Mati... was focussed on new and grave claims regarding the the Mati wildfire in the summer of 2018, which claimed... and the type of vegetation for the blaze sweeping through the coastal town of Mati so quickly. Former
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Kammenos prepares to quit coalition amid ANEL unrest, issues to settle with PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe much-advertised split between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) seems to be just days away... ANEL, has called a meeting of the party’s parliamentary group and executive committee on Wednesday... procedure in Skopje is due to be completed by January 14 at the latest. Therefore, ANEL’s departure
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Mati fire verdict prompts legal blame game as PM pledges swifter justice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe court verdict in the Mati wildfire trial has become the subject of political jockeying between... in place in 2018, when the offences were committed, meaning they applied to the Mati trial, even... official, was cleared of any wrongdoing in connection to the Mati fire by the misdemeanour court. He
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