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A raging wildfire is burning out of control on the edge of the Greek capital Athens.
Missing out on that Continental holiday might be a blessed relief – Europe is sweltering under temperatures so fierce the heatwave has been named Cerberus, after the three headed monster from Dante’s Inferno.
Wildfires in Greece have flared back up and are now threatening Athens.
Sky high taxes, plummeting pensions and swingeing austerity cuts – that’s the price Greece is paying as it ends eight years of international bailouts. The strict terms and conditions imposed to deal with the debt crisis have cost the country. Especially those who’ve been made homeless. Now, some of them have set up an alternative…
Alex Thomson
Juncker and Merkel saying early today they are confident Athens will do as it is told and as its own leader has negotiated, but the scale of the Greek PM’s U-turn remains breath-taking.
The European Central Bank abruptly cancels its acceptance of Greek bonds in a bid to isolate the country until it strikes a new reform deal.
Police dodge Molotov cocktails in scenes reminiscent of the violence of 2008. Why are young Greeks still angry?
Attackers fired upon the German embassy in Athens in the early hours of this morning in an apparent attempt to sour relations between Greece and its biggest bail-out creditor.
The decision of Greece’s government to invoke emergency powers to order public transport workers back to work is met by a “transportation blackout” from the unions.
Jon Snow
“The chanting was amongst the most obscene I’ve ever heard. In short, Angela Merkel was being invited to put the entire Euro crisis up her posterior.”
One economist likened the euro to Hotel California “where you can check out but you can’t leave”, pointing out that, “almost no modern fiat currency union has broken up without some form of authoritarian or military government or civil war”.
Unconfirmed reports says that three people have been injured in Athens during clashes between police and thousands of protesters demonstrating against austerity measures.
Whilst the Games might be the greatest show on earth, there may be an unwanted conversation about whether nations should be spending this amount of money on an Olympics.
We’re joined from Athens by the Deputy Greek Culture Minister Christos Dimas.
Almost all Italy’s major cities are under red alert for extreme heat amid the heatwave that’s intensifying across southern Europe.