Paul Tugwell

A small European Central Bank interest-rate increase could temper inflation without causing economic damage, Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras told Liberal.gr.

For Cyprus’s embattled tourist industry, this week’s arrival of 27 European Union finance ministers with an entourage of central bankers and officials is better late than never.

Greece’s Helleniq Energy SA doesn’t anticipate any problems with its ability to provide jet fuel during the peak summer season even as it continues to search for alternatives to lost Iraqi oil supply amid the conflict in the Middle East.

Greece’s largest electricity provider Public Power Corp SA rallied to all-time high after raising €4.5 billion ($5.2 billion) to help it further expand abroad.

The boss of Greece’s Atlantic SEE LNG Trade said it’s becoming more difficult to secure long-term liquefied natural gas deals with US suppliers, after the Iran war upended the global market.

Turkey warned it would respond forcefully to any threat against Turkish Cypriots after Cyprus signed a defense agreement with France that will allow French troops to be deployed on the island.

Europe is on red alert for wildfires after record-breaking heat waves and scant rainfall turned forests and fields into tinderboxes, with forecasters warning that more extreme conditions are on the way.

Stavros Moraitis has spent more than three decades fishing in the azure waters off the Greek island of Milos. He’s used to competition from rare monk seals, but now global warming has brought a rival with a far more voracious appetite: the silver-cheeked puffer fish.

Der Silberwangen-Kugelfisch hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren in griechischen Gewässern stark ausgebreitet und setzt der Fischerei zunehmend zu. Grund dafür ist die Erwärmung des Mittelmeers, durch die die Art aus den tropischen Gewässern des Indischen Ozeans über den Suezkanal ins Mittelmeer eingewandert ist. Mit Zähnen, die Stahlkonserven durchbeißen können, und einem Nervengift, das 1.000-mal stärker als Zyanid ist, hat der Fisch kaum natürliche Feinde.

Climate change is prompting the puffer fish to migrate from the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.