
Karampatis Attacks Government Over Leros Hospital, Tourism and Transport
Greek Solution politician Michail Karampatis issued a strongly worded statement criticising the government over Leros Hospital, tourism, migration and travel costs.

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Greek Solution politician Michail Karampatis issued a strongly worded statement criticising the government over Leros Hospital, tourism, migration and travel costs.

Dodecanese MP Giorgos Nikitiadis asked ministers about inactive medical clinics, pressure on island hospitals and police duties at reception centres on Kos and Leros.

A failure in a main water pipe at Temenia interrupted supplies in Temenia, Flambou and parts of Lakki, the Municipality of Leros announced.

Worshippers gathered at Panagia of the Castle on Leros for services and processions marking the Feast of the Assumption on 14 and 15 August.

The South Aegean entered Red Code mobilisation on 15 August as very strong winds raised the wildfire danger to category four across the region.

The Leros Port Authority placed crews on heightened alert as northerly winds of seven to eight Beaufort were forecast across the south-eastern Aegean.

ANNOUNCEMENT – Our island is in a STATE OF EMERGENCY DUE TO LEIPSIDRIA (Government Gazette 6416/01-12-2025) from December 2025 by decision of the Minister of Energy and Environment, after a positive opinion from the ERA.

It is put on heightened alertPort Authority of Leros, in view of the particularly strong winds that are expected to prevail on Friday, August 14 in the Dodecanese.

Michalis Kolias said half of Leros had faced two weeks without water and demanded answers over desalination spending, planning and responsibility.

Important developments are recorded in the tender for the barren public service coastal lines, which concerns the route period until 31 October 2029.

Mayor Timotheos Kottakis wrote to the electricity network operator over repeated outages and voltage drops affecting water, sewerage and peak-season activity.

Piraeus port authorities published Blue Star Ferries schedules linking the mainland with Leros and other Dodecanese islands from 10 to 16 August.

A private donation by Antonis Papadimitriou and Afroditi Panagiotakou is funding extensive renovation of two historic secondary schools on Leros.

Leros mayor Timotheos Kottakis met the tourism minister and said she would make an official visit to the island in early September.

At the peak of the tourist season, Leros is "drowning" with tourism, as Fotis Giannakos, an entrepreneur of the island who is active in the field of tourism with accommodation in the area of Gourna and catering with a business of health interest, told Real Voice 99.5 and Natasa Pambri, on the show "Together at 10".

The history of European integration is full of "snapshots" where Brussels bureaucracy and the micropolitical calculations of nation states clashed with genuine humanitarian action. But few cases encapsulate this tragic irony as vividly as the February 2016 initiative betweenSouth Aegean Regionand herRegional Government of Valencia (Generalitat Valenciana). It was the moment when two European regions decided to bypass state indifference and practice autonomous humanitarian diplomacy, attempting to transfer 1,000 refugees from the trying islands of the Dodecanese directly to Spain.

In an important parliamentary intervention to the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy, Manos Konsolas proceeded to strengthen and upgrade the ferry connection of Leros.

1. We would like to inform you that the parking of all vehicles is prohibited in the yard of the Tourist Boat Anchorage in Alinda.

Evangelos Asvestas spoke to Leros News about the prime minister's visit, island projects, hospital pressures and closer contact between residents and the municipality.

Leros Municipal Committee unanimously approved a EUR 2.09 million funding application covering nine studies and two years of technical support.

In Lakki of Leros, where one of the most special sets of buildings of Italian architecture and of the Interwar era is preserved, the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, visited the historic "Leros Hotel", which was restored by the Ministry of Culture and granted to The Municipality of Leros.

On Sunday, August 2, 2026, the historic "Alindia 2026" sailing races will take place on the beach of Alindia, continuing an institution that started in 1907.

Firefighters, municipal crews, volunteers and residents responded to an early-morning fire near Mount Tsigouna on Leros, supported by a helicopter.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Leros to inspect the new Alinda tourist mooring, hospital improvements, Lakki port and other island projects.

Leros Municipal Committee was called to consider funding applications for strategic studies and a pedestrian route linking the reception centre with Lepida seafront.