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Following almost a week of intense heat that affected the entire country, Attica, Evia and Rhodes have been placed on a “Red Code” alert due to a very high risk of wildfires predicted for Friday.
When inflation was at 4.4 in June, households that spent their entire income to cover their living costs were burdened much more than those that, having double or quadruple the income, spent the same absolute amount and saved or invested the rest.
A sweeping investigation by the National Transparency Authority has uncovered systemic administrative failures, potential corruption and widespread procedural violations in the municipal building department of Rhodes, local newspaper Dimokratiki reported.
Commuters will have to be patient for a few more years until some of the first-generation trains of the Athens metro acquire air-conditioning, so they stop boiling when the temperature soars, as is the case these days.
Former SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos has become an independent MP, about two weeks after stepping down as head of the left-wing opposition party.
Left-wing opposition SYRIZA’s parliamentary group will not attend a reception on Friday at the Presidential Mansion marking the anniversary of the Restoration of Democracy in Greece, the party’s recently elected leader Rena Dourou has said.
The cases of four ruling New Democracy party MPs recently referred by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office over suspected involvement in Greece’s OPEKEPE EU farm subsidy scandal will be heard in four separate trials this autumn, following the implementation of a new Justice Ministry provision aimed at expediting cases involving political figures as defendants.
Another flare-up in the Middle East, combined heat waves during the peak tourism season and Europe’s push to replenish natural gas reserves before winter is driving a new wave of increases across the energy sector and deepening uncertainty in global markets.
The Government Council for National Security is expected on Thursday to give final approval for the next key step in Greece’s Achilles’ Shield air defense program, clearing the way for contract signings covering Israeli-made anti-aircraft, anti-ballistic and counter-drone systems.
Choreographer Apostolia Papadamaki and composer Tryfon Koutsourelis discuss the ritual performance coming to Ancient Corinth.
