“We are hardly surviving,” this was the conclusion of the owner of an Italian shoe shop with 25 years of history on the central Athens street Pindaru. You can hear these words from every small shop and commercial establishment in Greece this summer.

Eight new cases of brain inflammation were recorded in northern Greece, the tests of the infected people were sent for analysis to the microbiological laboratory of the Medical Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in order to determine whether the inflammation was caused by the West Nile virus.

The request of the Greek authorities for the extradition of the number one drug boss in the Pirin region Ognyan Atanasov was approved after six months of waiting. The Balkan Escobar was wanted for possession and distribution of drugs and forming a criminal group in Greece.

The pharmacist Eleni Yanakopoulou has thirty-six years of experience and owns a pharmacy in the Athens district of Nea Chalcedon. She told us about the problems of pharmacy owners in times of crisis weeks before the vote of the law on local market liberalization.

Mr. Philip Nedelev with nickname "bionic_f", won the first weekly prize of our music game.

The beach and sea are certainly the right place to spend the hottest days of the year. But let's use them properly and remember some important things. Especially if you intend to rest on a beach with no medical staff.

High temperatures this weekend were caused a new wave of fires to flood Greece. Strong fires broke out in the regions around Lamia, Igoumenitsa and Evia, where the fire departments remain at the scene.