Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:
The devastating fires in the past years, with the latest last month reaching into Athens’ suburbs, and the resulting floods in Central Greece, have made the need for consistent climate action all the more urgent.
Thousands of Athenians will be running or walking on Sunday, Sept. 29 in Athens for this year’s “Greece Race for the Cure” events which aim to raise awareness and support breast cancer research and treatment programs. The two sporting events are sold out with 10,000 participants registered for the 5K race and 35,000 for the 2K both to kick off from Zappeion Park this Sunday.
The procedure for the sale of a 12% stake in the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) to the National Bank of Greece (NBG) is set to start next week, according to sources cited by Reuters.
Attica prefecture, which is essentially the greater Athens-Piraeus area, the Peloponnese and Crete are the three regions where a concerning rise in incidents of juvenile crime in Greece is most prevalent, as data collected by ToVima.gr reveals.
Multinational investment bank UBS is “bullish” on the Greek banks, arguing it will benefit the most from the country’s wider economic growth cycle.
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