Derek Gatopoulos

With wildfires already breaking out in Greece, Derek Gatopoulos, a correspondent for the Associated Press who has been covering news in Greece for more than 25 years, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how Greece is looking to overhaul its wildfire response in preparation for this summer's wildfire season.

Derek Gatopoulos, a correspondent for the Associated Press who has been covering news in Greece for more than 25 years, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest updates on the wildfires Greece has been facing this week, and to look at how Greece and Athens are coping with the intense and prolonged heat wave.

European People's Party candidate Manfred Weber (l) and the leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party Kyriakos Mitsotakis visit an ancient temple at Nemea about 117 kilometers (73 miles) west of Athens on Tuesday. Weber is in Greece for the official launch of his campaign for the May 23-26 European Parliament elections. [Derek Gatopoulos/AP]

By Derek Gatopoulos

There were no intimidating guards at the door, or angry chants of "Blood, Honor, Golden Dawn," as there have been in the past.

In fact, the guests looked more like members of a large wedding party than supporters of Europe's most prominent extreme-right political group.

By Derek Gatopoulos

Greece's will achieve better-than-expected budget figures in 2014 year but that unemployment would only decline slowly over the coming four years, the country's finance ministry said Wednesday.