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Greece Heat Advisory Warns of Blistering Temperatures

2022-07-23 by Phil Butler

Thessaloniki

The National Observatory in Athens issues a heatwave warning until the end of July. The northern hemisphere is blistering under record heat.

Tags: Fire, global warming, Greece temperatures, Greece wildfires, heat advisory, heat warning, heat wave, UK heat

Mitsotakis Sacks Tourism, Public Order, and Other Cabinet Ministers

2021-08-31 by Phil Butler

Vasilis Kikilias

In a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, Vassilis Kikilias was appointed as the new tourism minister for Greece, replacing Harry Theoharis.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Greece hotels, Greece PM, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Greek cabinet, Harry Theoharis, Mitsotakis administration, New Democracy, Vassilis Kikilias

Greece’s All Powerful Tourism and Hospitality Leaders to Resurrect Evia

2021-08-30 by Phil Butler

Elevated Theoharis

With wide swaths of Greece burnt to a crisp, and COVID still rampaging across the country, some Greek leaders seem to think they are gods.

Tags: Agioi Taxiarches Church, Alexandros Vassilikos, Athens protests, Evia Island, Evia wildfires, Fr. Ioannis Siafleki, global warming, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Grigoris Tasios, Harry Theoharis, Kokkinomilia, tourism

Greeks – Get Vaccinated Now, Not for the Schmuck Politicians, for All of Us

2021-08-25 by Phil Butler

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Greeks, get vaccinated. Not for the Schmuck Politicians who have fumbled on COVID. For all of us subject to new more deadly variants.

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, coronavirus variants, COVID vaccine, delta plus, EODY, Greece, Greece coronavirus, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Turkey virus, vaccines

The Greece Tourism Season That Never Should Have Been

2021-08-12 by Phil Butler

Greek Prime Minister

With wildfire ravaging the country, and the coronavirus resurging, will Greek officials finally admit the 2021 tourism season was a mistake?

Tags: Blue Freedom, fires in Greece, Greece 2021, Greece COVID, Greece COVID-19, Greece fires, Greece tourists, Greece vaccines, Greece wildfires, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mitsotakis administration, Theoharis

Greece’s Mitsotakis Apologizes For “Somebody” Letting His Country Burn

2021-08-10 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

As Greece wildfires destroy his country, Greece’s Prime Minister apologizes for governmental failures. Meanwhile, firefighters battle the blazes.

Tags: climate change, Elia Island, global warming, Greece wildfires, Mitsotakis, Nikos Hardalias, UN, wildfires

Armageddon 2021: Welcome to Greece

2021-08-06 by Phil Butler

Armageddon

COVID, the waves, the Delta variant, heat waves, wildfires, mediocre leaders, Greece is set for Armageddon.

Tags: climate disaster, conservation, coronavirus Greece, coronovirus, Delta variant, EODY, global warming, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Greta Thunberg, heatwaves, Hellenic National Meteorological Service, HNMS, tourism, wildfires

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