How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires
Years of cuts to Greek fire services have fuelled one of Europe’s worst natural disasters – and unless we invest in public services to fight climate change, it will become a familiar story.
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Stelios Foteinopoulos is a former International Relations Policy Officer at the Nicos Poulantzas Institute in Athens, Greece. He is now a European Union affairs analyst and a member of Momentum.
Years of cuts to Greek fire services have fuelled one of Europe’s worst natural disasters – and unless we invest in public services to fight climate change, it will become a familiar story.
After five years of deliberation, sentence will be handed down tomorrow in the trial of Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn – one of the most important anti-fascist legal cases since Nuremberg.
SYRIZA, once the great hope of the left, was defeated last weekend after four years imposing austerity on those it promised to fight for.