Greek PM to call for reforms, fiscal prudence after deadly storm – sources

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to announce state reforms and relief measures in a keynote speech on Saturday, days after a devastating rainstorm killed at least 17 people.
The conservative premier, who was re-elected in June, had postponed his annual speech on economic policy by a week to Sept. 16 due to the impact of storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, after a summer of devastating wildfires.
The storm swept through Thessaly in central Greece for three days flooding cities and villages and turning the region into an inland sea. Hundreds of residents were airlifted or pulled out of flooded homes in lifeboats, crops were washed away and tens of thousands of animals drowned.
In his speech at 1700 GMT Mitsotakis will refer to the challenges the country faces due to climate change, a government source said, and will outline support measures, with funding from the state budget and the European Union, for the people and sectors hit by storm Daniel.