An extraordinary wide-ranging inter-ministerial meeting was held this afternoon at the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection. The purpose was to inform the relevant Ministries, the Security Forces, the OTAs of the first and second degree, and all the agencies involved about the wave of bad weather, which, according to the National Meteorological Service, is expected to start on Monday from Thessaly and in the coming days to expand to other regions of the country.

The meeting highlighted the need for the entire state apparatus, as well as the regional and local self-government to be prepared for the impending bad weather, mainly due to the burden that the wider region of Thessaly has suffered since the recent disaster.

New meeting at the weekend

It is noted that another meeting will be held during the weekend based on the updated data.

The meeting was attended by the Minister of Climate Crisis & Civil Protection Vassilis Kikilias, the Minister of State Akis Skertsos, the Deputy Minister under Prime Minister Thanassis Kontogeorgis, the Deputy Minister of Prime Minister Ioannis Bratakos Yannis Oikonomou, the Minister of Rural Development & Food Lefteris Avgenakis, the Minister of Social Cohesion & Family Sofia Zacharakis, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure & Transport-Infrastructure Sector Nikolaos Tachiaos, the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis & Civil Protection Christos Triantopoulos, the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis & Policy of Protection Evangelos Tournas, the General Secretary of Civil Protection Vassilios Papageorgiou, the General Secretary of Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid Petros Kambouris, the General Secretary of Public Order Manos Logothetis, the Representative of the Ministry of Tourism Konstantinos Zikos, the Regional Governor of Thessaly Konstantinos Agorastos, the Mayors of the regions they expired from the recent floods, the AGEETHA Representative, Lieutenant General Prokopis Mavraganis, the Chief of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Georgios Pournaras, the Deputy Chief of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Marios Apostolidis, the Commander of ESKEDIK, Lieutenant General Theodoros Vagias, the Chief of Staff of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Christos Lambris, the Branch Officer of Fire Operations, Major General Athanasios Balafas, the ELAS Representative – Head of the Class/AEA Branch, Major General Michalopoulos Georgios, the Director of the National Meteorological Service Theodoros Kolidas as well as a scientific team of meteorologists.