If taxes go up, more young people will leave, warns Mayor Kakali. Because it is one of the smallest islands, Agios Efstratios will not have to pay the tax increase until 2017. And Kakali hopes the political situation in Greece will change before then. But, if not, she plans to travel to Athens to remind the distant government what the tax rise would cost. “The government doesn’t pay much attention to the islands of the north Aegean,” she said, “so I would take all the kids from our school to the gates of parliament, to tell them: ‘There is still life in these islands’.”
What will Kakali do if Agios Efstratios has to pay the proposed tax increase?
Visit the government with kids from Agios Efstratios Invite parliament members to visit schools in Agios Efstratios Encourage young people to leave Agios Efstratios Resign from her position to protest the government