Paul Tugwell
Bureau Chief and Reporter at Bloomberg News
Bloomberg Athens Deputy Bureau Chief. Greece and Cyprus. Any views I express are entirely my own and not of Bloomberg.
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5 days ago |
bloomberglinea.com | Paul Tugwell |Nick Paleologos
Bloomberg — Grecia evacuó partes de la isla de Xios, al este del mar Egeo, mientras los bomberos luchaban durante la noche para contener las llamas que estallaron el domingo. Los fuertes vientos avivaron los incendios, que cubrieron Xios de un espeso humo. Dos aviones y 11 helicópteros ayudaban a unos 190 bomberos a atajar las llamas en los bosques de la isla. Las autoridades están investigando la posibilidad de que se trate de un incendio provocado, según informó el cuerpo de bomberos.
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5 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Paul Tugwell
Firefighters tackle a wildfire on the island of Xios, Greece, on June 22. (Bloomberg) -- Greece evacuated parts of the east Aegean Sea island of Chios as firefighters struggled to contain a total of five blazes that broke out over the past two days. Strong winds fanned the fires, which covered Chios in thick smoke. Four planes and 13 helicopters were assisting around 190 firefighters, who will soon be joined by additional 171 personnel.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Paul Tugwell
Manousos Manousakis(Bloomberg) -- Greek grid operator IPTO SA is seeking compensation for delays to getting licenses for seabed surveys that are needed to complete what’s set to be one of the world’s largest power links. Plans to develop the link connecting Cyprus and Israel to mainland Europe have been disrupted by ongoing disagreements with Turkey over maritime borders in the eastern Mediterranean, delaying the surveys.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Paul Tugwell |Joe Wertz
An airdrop of fire retardant in Ritsona, Greece, on May 19. (Bloomberg) -- Greece ordered its first evacuation of the wildfire season, as temperatures climbed and the wind strengthened. Traffic was halted and locals roads closed, as a blaze started in low lying vegetation in Anavissos, a town around 46 kilometers (29 miles) southeast of Athens. An evacuation order was issued as 110 firefighters supported by three aircraft and four helicopters tackled the blaze.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Sotiris Nikas |Paul Tugwell |Mark Schroers
Yannis Stournaras, governor of Bank of Greece, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. "As inflation develops now and as the real economy develops now, I think yes we should have a cut in every meeting from now on until we get to what we call the neutral rate," Stournaras said.
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Meridiam agreed to buy a stake in Greece’s €1.9 billion project to link its power grid with Cyprus and Israel through undersea cables across the eastern Mediterranean, people familiar with the deal said https://t.co/qiqXTgHUEt via @markets @PaulTugwell1
In the midst of its worst wildfire season in two decades, Greece is showing how to learn to live with them https://t.co/zCrcoWuGed via @climate @PaulTugwell1
The herculean effort it took to snuff out Greece's inferno this week shows the uphill battle European firefighters face as climate change turbo-charges the threat posed by wildfires https://t.co/cwe2HE3uTT via @climate @EamonFarhat @PaulTugwell1