Measures that include a ban on circulation in specific regions’ mountain and urban forests and other locations prone to fires are some of the decisions made at an extraordinary interministerial meeting held at the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry earlier on Monday on the fires raging in Greece.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement on Monday on the continued detention of the elected mayor of Himara Fredi Beleri, condemning the Albanian court decision to reject his appeal for release.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the island of Rhodes on Monday afternoon. The quake’s epicenter was identified 33 kilometers off the north-east coast of the island, at a depth of 39.8 kilometers.
An unannounced meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr is underway at the Prime Minister’s Maximos Mansion.
Two firefighters were injured, and a fire engine was damaged at the wildfire that broke out earlier on Monday at a forest area in Dialechto, Kavala in northern Greece.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Monday with the Prime Minister of Romania Ion-Marcel Ciolacu at the Maximos Mansion. This was the first meeting of the two country leaders after Ciolacu’s assumption of duties in Romania.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen uploaded a message on social media from Athens focusing on European enlargement on Monday ahead of the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on the issue.
Shipping passengers must have noticed this summer that the vessels they are traveling on are getting old. Even though maintenance is good, the fact remains that the average age of Greece’s passenger shipping fleet is 31.
Turkey’s economy team is capable of bringing down inflation to single digits, Turkey’s President Erdogan told reporters during his flight back from Hungary on Sunday.
Greek authorities ordered the evacuation of two villages in the central Viotia region, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Athens, after a forest fire broke out Monday morning.