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PASOK sustains its attack on ELAS as wildfires continue to dominate agenda A major programmatic interview by ELAS leader Alexis Tsipras continues to elicit strong reactions from the government as well as from the main opposition party PASOK, seemingly confirming the ex-PM's new party as a significant force in the run-up to the next elections.
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Government moves on fire compensation as opposition sharpens its questions The aftermath of the wildfires that swept Western Attica and Boeotia continues to dominate the political agenda, with the government moving quickly on compensation while the opposition presses a more detailed line of questioning about prevention and operational failures.
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Mitsotakis intervenes in EU migration debate as PASOK challenges wildfire policy The political temperature in Athens has risen sharply in recent days, shaped by three converging dynamics: the Greek government’s alarm over the crisis in Ceuta and the wider debate on “weaponised migration”; PASOK’s intensifying pressure on the government over the wildfires that have devastated parts of the country; and the increasingly direct confrontation between PASOK and the new challenger ELAS, which is itself preparing to take the next step in its emergence ahead of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF).
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Extensive wildfires put extra strain on PM as he looks for clear path to TIF policy speech The dense smoke that settled over Attica in recent days captured, with brutal clarity, the scale of the destruction Greece is facing this summer due to an extensive outbreak of wildfires.
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Firefighter deaths overshadow cabinet meeting as exodus from Elpida party continues Three firefighters died on Wednesday battling wildfires in Crete and the southern Peloponnese, casting a shadow over the government's last cabinet meeting before the summer recess.
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas Opposition parties are preparing to lift their unofficial moratorium on criticising the government for its handling of several serious wildfires which left a tail of devastation across different parts of the country since the start of August.
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Government feels the heat after two days of catastrophic wildfires Opposition parties are demanding accountability from the government, after what they claim was a disastrous response to multiple wildfires which burned thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, encroaching into villages and suburbs, over the last 48 hours.
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PoliticsGreek Politics Wildfires and healthcare failings test government over summer season The government is bracing for the assessment of the toll from the latest spate of wildfires which are still burning across the country after weeks of dry hot weather. The summer season is also testing the national health system, with several reported incidents highlighting staffing gaps and ageing infrastructure.
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Mitsotakis pledges faster reforms as polls capture disaffection after subsidy scandal A revised government action plan promising tangible reforms for the second half of the year was PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s parting gift to the cabinet at the start of the summer recess, as the latest polling figures show the public is losing faith in the administration.
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Firefighting capabilities beefed up as blazes and water shortages weigh on government Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that Greece’s defences against wildfires have been the strongest they have ever been but the realities of the climate crisis, whether in the form of summer blazes or water shortages, are becoming ever-more urgent issues for his government to address.