Mitsotakis: Greece is once more being tested by fires

Mitsotakis: Greece is once more being tested by fires

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis began a cabinet meeting on Monday by thanking frontline firefighting forces for their great work over the last few days, noting that the state had been "present from the first moments against hundreds of blazes, throughout the country." CE Report quotes Athens-Macedonian
"Unfortunately, today's meeting is being held in the midst of a confrontation with the fires, which are testing the country again this year," he said, while noting that there had been "an extremely difficult June in terms of weather conditions, with high drought and unusually high winds for this season," while the summer ahead was predicted to be particularly dangerous.

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