Committee tables northern Evia’s 389.8-million-euro reconstruction plan

The committee tasked with creating a masterplan for the reconstruction of northern Evia, most of which was destroyed in a massive wildfire in August 2021, presented the project to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other local government officials during a meeting on Monday.

The program includes 71 projects and actions with a budget of 389.8 million euros. Of these, 30 projects and actions have already started or been completed, and 41 will start by the end of 2023. 

"There is no doubt that this plan combined a bold look at the way we can imagine northern Evia with the expectations of local residents," Mitsotakis said, noting that the job of central government was now to monitor the implementation of this plan, while stressing that a great part of the work had been done and the milestones already set.

"This essentially means central planning…. From the...