spain: 1000s flee new blaze on Costa del Sol

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*Spain fire: Thousands flee blaze near Costa del Sol town

BBC News via Caron Brief

BBC News reports that around 2,000 people have left their homes after
wildfires broke out in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. It
adds: "The blaze has burned 7,400 hectares, according to Spanish
media. `This is inhuman, nothing like this has ever been seen,' one
evacuee, Adriana Iacob told Reuters. `The flames of the fire as they
ran through the mountains, it was amazing.' Europe has seen a number
of wildfires this summer. Climate change increases the risk of the
hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires." Meanwhile, the
Independent`s Bel Trew reports from Greece on how its own "summer
firestorms" were "utterly foreseeable".

In other Europe news, Bloomberg reports that "Italians may soon reckon
with higher pasta prices amid a fall in durum wheat production". The
price hike is due to that fact that "drought and heat continued to
hurt the wheat harvest in July in Canada, the world's biggest supplier
of durum wheat, months after a harsh winter hit the Russian crop".

The Financial Times says that, ahead of Ursula von der Leyen's state
of the union address on Wed, "soaring carbon prices spell
trouble ahead for [European Union]'s climate policies". It adds: "The
fear among EU policymakers is a rerun of the gilets jaunes phenomenon
seen in France, where citizens rebel against the cost of going green."
And Bloomberg says "the energy crunch in Europe [shows] little signs
of easing, with German and French power prices rising to record levels
amid signs winter may be coming early this year". It adds: "The cost
of electricity is continuing to rise even as Russia said it finished
building a controversial natural gas pipeline that could bring some
relief to the crunch in [gas] supply."

Finally, the Financial Times has a "big read" on how Germany's Greens
have "embraced business". The newspaper says: "If, as expected, the
party forms part of any coalition govt, it will demand companies
set net-zero targets."

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