Exodus fear in Greece's north as brown coal plants close

Ptolemaida, Greece (AFP) Dec 27, 2025
Mayor Panagiotis Plakentas fears what will happen to the town of Ptolemaida and the surrounding region when the last of the brown coal power plants in northern Greece close next year. He told AFP that eight out of 10 young people who leave the region to study never come back and it risks "turning into Detroit", the US city devastated by the collapse of the car industry. Western Macedonia