15/08/16

[Maik]

Don't know if anyone saw it / has seen it before (probably a repeat) - yesterday's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA featured Makis Michaelatos, native of Kefalonia, now owner of The Greek at the Harbor, Southern California. Quite a touching story and not the usual poison palace in the kitchen. Might be available here: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/ramsays-kitchen-nightmares-usa/on-demand/53893-007

[Maik]

Greece's former statistics chief has told the Financial Times newspaper that EU economic governance will be “critically undermined” if officials like himself “cannot keep accurate statistics without fear of being dragged … through the courts”. Andreas Georgiou faces a criminal trial on charges of harming the national interest. In 2009, he reported that Greece’s true deficit was 15.4% of GDP, not 13.6%, prompting the debt crisis.

https://euobserver.com/tickers/134635

[Maik]

A year after the crisis was declared over, Greece is still spiralling down

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/13/greek-economy-still-spiralling-down-year-after-crisis-declared-over

[Maik]

Bush fire in Damoulianou, Paliki, yesterday. Firefighters seemed to have got it under control.

[Maik]

A 48-year-old firefighter has lost his life while helping to put out a blaze north of Athens

http://www.ekathimerini.com/211222/article/ekathimerini/news/firefighter-dies-fighting-blaze-north-of-athens

[Maik]

A seventy year old female Argostoli resident died while swimming at Maistrato, Argostoli, yesterday morning.

[Maik]

New pontoon 'pier' unveiled in Fiskardo recently.