Brussels, 20/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - The EU's Civil Protection Mechanism's Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) has responded to the request from the Greek government for help in tackling the forest fires currently raging in the country. In the evening of 18 July, Greece requested aid in the form of aircraft. The MIC immediately alerted the civil protection authorities of the 30 countries participating in the Community Civil Protection Mechanism (the EU27, Iceland, Liechtenstein and...