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Measures for Western Attica’s fire victims: Fast-tracked compensation and special measures for businesses
With the Greek parliament due to reconvene after recess, it has been decided that a bill will be tabled to speed up and digitise the procedures used by fire-affected individuals and businesses to file damage declarations and claim compensation
Three reasons why Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is eyeing a May election
The measures unveiled at September's Thessaloniki Fair will not reach people's pockets until January; the election will test the staying power of Tsipras, Samaras and Karystianou; and Mitsotakis is playing the institutional card of Greece's EU presidency
Interministerial meeting at Maximos Mansion under Mitsotakis tomorrow on compensation for wildfire victims
He will also meet with the Mayor of Thessaloniki
Thanos Plevris submits Mitsotakis’ proposal for an EU asylum suspension mechanism to the EU Council
The Prime Minister, in an article published by Politico, called for the creation of a European mechanism allowing the temporary suspension of asylum procedures and immediate returns, in accordance with EU law, in exceptional cases where mass migration flows are being weaponised, such as the recent events in Ceuta
Konstantinos Floros: “The doctrine still stands today: anyone who sets foot on Greek soil will first be burned & only then will we ask who they are”
General Floros on everything: “Greece won the battle of perceptions during the 2020 naval collision incident and the hybrid attack at Evros. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the kind of leader you want to have in times of crisis”
Mitsotakis in Politico: EU needs new measures to tackle the weaponization of migration
Hours before the EU emergency videoconference on Ceuta, he speaks of “the instrumentalization of asylum aimed at creating hybrid pressure” & proposes that, in exceptional cases, member states should “temporarily suspend the submission of asylum applications by newly arrived individuals”
Prime Minister:”There are times when the intensity of such phenomena exceeds all human planning” – Support for wildfire victims will be immediate
Protecting human life remains our priority, says Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his weekly Sunday post, noting that the battle firefighters are facing exceeds the limits of human endurance
Adonis Georgiadis defends Meta smart glasses in Greek Parliament: “I’ll wear them at public gatherings to record criminal acts”
Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis defended his use of Meta smart glasses in Parliament, saying he will continue wearing them at public gatherings to record criminal acts, amid criticism from opposition parties
