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The mayor of Milan on June 25 announced the northern Italian city's fountains would be switched off as part of water restrictions imposed due to a drought.

Beppe Sala announced the measures the day after the wider Lombardy region declared a state of emergency to last until Sept. 30, directing mayors to curtail non-essential water use.

After serving as a deputy mayor in charge of transportation and mobility in his previous term, he is now a deputy mayor in charge of greenery and biodiversity.

He is one of the 35 deputy mayors in Paris, who like government ministers, each have their own departments.

One of ruling SYRIZA’s more outspoken far-left cadres, the London-based academic and economist Costas Lapavitsas, on Monday landed in the Guardian’s inner pages with his cure for Greece’s economic ills – leave the euro!