Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:
Bookings in Greece by Albanian tourists hit an all-time high in 2024, marking a cataclysmic shift from the pre-1990 era when the citizens of the Adriatic country were largely confined to their borders under a tyrannical regime.
The Greek government on Tuesday announced an emergency set of measures for fire-stricken residents across the northeast part of Attica prefecture and several districts in northern Athens below the slopes of Mt. Penteli and Mt. Dionysos.
Copernicus, the European Union’s Space programme observation component shared a satellite image on its official social media X (formerly Twitter) account of the extent of the devastation caused by the wildfires that broke out in Attica on Sunday.
As one more of the country’s fires ravaged homes and woodland in northeastern Attica reaching Athens’ suburbs on Monday night, two teenagers who lit a blaze “for fun” in the suburb of Glyfada, south of Athens, were arrested for arson.
While real per capita income saw an upward trend across OECD countries in the first quarter of the year, Greece stood out for a more troubling reason. Despite nominal increases in the minimum wage, the disposable income of Greek households experienced the steepest quarterly decline among all OECD member nations.
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