Firefighters on Saturday morning were continuing to battle a large fire that broke out early Friday morning in a rural party of Rethymno prefecture, Crete, that has led to the evacuation of seven villages.
The risk of fire remains very hight in five regions of Greece on Saturday – Attica, Central Greece (Viotia, Evia), Peloponnese (Corinthia and Argolida), Crete and Northern Aegean (Chios, Samos, Ikaria) – the General Secretariat of Civil Protection has warned.
The strong upward trend of sale and rental prices for houses continued in the second quarter of the year, data from the Spitogatos Property Index (SPI) has shown.
“We will stand by every Greek man and woman until this storm passes,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement concerning the activation on Friday of the Power Pass payments to consumers.
The House on Thursday passed an $840 billion policy bill that would increase President Joe Biden’s requested Pentagon budget by $37 billion, reflecting a growing bipartisan appetite in Congress to raise military spending amid new threats from Russia and China.
The cost of basic consumer goods continues to rise in Cyprus, pushing the price of such modest products as the greenhouse cucumber – which was the largest increase recorded – 52.2% higher between June 8 and July 13, according to the data published on Friday by the country’s Consumer Protection Agency.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras is putting pressure on banks and servicers to intensify efforts towards finding solutions for the settlement of nonperforming loans.