Severe weather from a system named Byron swept across Greece on Thursday, flooding roads, prompting school closures and triggering multiple emergency alerts as authorities warned of worsening conditions overnight.
Farmers across Greece intensified their protests, expanding blockades at key border crossings while tensions with the government deepened after a canceled meeting between Crete’s farmer representatives and senior officials.
A powerful weather system named Byron swept across much of Greece on Friday, forcing widespread school closures, disrupting public services and causing severe travel delays as heavy rain and thunderstorms lashed large parts of the country.
Greece, Bulgaria and Romania’s agreement on the Aegean-Black Sea Vertical Corridor, a strategic rail and road axis that will connect the three countries via Alexandroupoli, has been signed in Brussels.
Greece is expected to raise around 8 billion euros from the markets in 2026. The plan of Public Debt Management Agency head Dimitrios Tsakonas, according to reliable information, predicts that of the borrowing needs that Greece has in 2026, the amount of around €8 billion will be covered by bond issuances.
Cyprus experienced deflation in November, at a rate of 0.5%.
Almost twice as many enterprises in Cyprus now have fast internet, compared to 2021, as a total of 87.3% of enterprises have internet connection speeds higher than 100 Mbit/s compared to 44.8% four years ago, according to a survey by the Statistical Service of Cyprus.
The last 10 kilometers of the Patra-Pyrgos highway, the section between Midilogli and Kaminia, were inaugurated by the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry’s leadership on Thursday, completing the Olympia Odos highway along its entire length of 277 kilometers.
The creditor banks of fish farming giant Avramar are looking for a way out of the agreement they have signed with Arab fund Aqua Bridge.
A new Crisis Response Hub, a modern facility to support citizens and frontline workers during extreme events, was inaugurated on Thursday in the Athens suburb of Halandri.