Over 2,750 hectares, most of it forest, was destroyed in the fire that broke out in Pendeli, north of Athens, last Tuesday. Almost all of the affected area was earmarked for reforestation following earlier fires in the region.
Firefighters are batting for a third day contain a wildfire raging in the Dadia National Park, the country’s largest Natura 2000 site and home to the only black vulture colony in the Balkans, in the northeastern border region of Evros.
With the energy crisis in full swing, the government is focusing its attention on the unfolding debate at the European level, ahead of the July 26 Council of EU Energy Ministers.
Iranian dissidents in Albania on Friday said they had canceled a summit following warnings from local authorities of a possible terrorist threat. Some 3,000 Iranian dissidents from the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, best known as MEK, live at Ashraf 3 camp in Manez, 30 kilometers west of Albania’s capital, Tirana.
A new framework regarding the status and function of the Muslim community’s muftis in Thrace, northeastern Greece, was tabled to Parliament on Friday by the Education Ministry.
European envoys debated revisions on Friday to a proposal by the EU executive that all bloc members cut natural gas use to prepare for potential Russian supply cuts, hoping for a compromise by next week after some governments, including in Greece, balked at the plan.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Greece on July 26 to meet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek foreign ministry said on Friday, in his first visit to an EU country since the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement in Istanbul on Friday to free more than 20 million metric tons of grain stuck in blockaded Black Sea ports in Ukraine, a deal aimed at bringing down soaring grain prices and alleviating a mounting global hunger crisis.
Despite high temperatures in the last few weeks in Cyprus, ongoing electricity demand in the country has remained lower than last summer.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the doubling of both the funding and of the beneficiaries for the “Tourism for All” 2022 state subsidize holiday program.