Greek towns frozen out by budget delays

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Dozens of Greek municipalities began 2026 efficaciously paralyzed, unable to unafraid contracts oregon motorboat nationalist works projects due to the fact that they lacked approved budgets, section officials say.

Only 55 of Greece’s 332 municipalities had cleared each required support stages by March 10. As of Thursday, 24 still had nary approved budget, including the municipalities of Mykonos, Corinth, and Grevena. The bottleneck stems from a mandatory switch to caller accounting λογισμικό aligned with EU nationalist concern directives.

While ministries and different cardinal authorities bodies received extensions, municipalities did not.

“When a municipality has nary approved budget, it tin lone wage operating costs –salaries, fuel, energy bills. No concern task tin determination forward,” said Grigoris Konstantellos, vice president of the Central Union of Municipalities and politician of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni.

Compounding the crisis, substance costs person surged owed to the Middle East conflict, straining garbage postulation and municipal vehicle fleets.