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1. The growing teacher shortage

   Greece’s education system is facing more than just the challenges of demographic decline and shrinking student enrollment.

2. Kafka after midnight: A basement, a flashlight, a shared silence

   Just before midnight on May 30, readers descended into the basement of the Monocle bookshop for an unusual encounter with Franz Kafka.

3. Embassy of Georgia celebrates 30 years in Athens

   Cultural relations between Greece and Georgia date from the myth of Prometheus, chained on the Caucasus Mountains and the seeking of the Golden Fleece by Jason and the Argonauts aboard Argo.

4. Avoiding crowded destinations

   The behavior of European travelers is changing, directly affecting both the preferred vacation periods and the selected destinations.

5. Hellenic Air Force deploys fighter jets for major NATO exercise across Europe

   The Hellenic Air Force is preparing for one of its largest deployments in recent years, with fighter jets and support aircraft relocating across northern and southern Europe for NATO’s Ramstein Flag 26 (RAFL) exercise.

6. British hiker rescued on Mt Olympus

   A British hiker who required help after being injured on Mount Olympus, Greece's highest mountain, was rescued Friday.

7. Real-time wildfire monitoring system enhanced

   Athens’ National Observatory has upgraded FireHUB, a fire prevention, management and monitoring system that helps authorities detect and track wildfires and predict how they will develop in real time.

8. Considerable hikes in lifelong health insurance contracts

   In anticipation of the ELSTAT index for the adjustment of tahe cost of health insurance contracts, pending since 2025, insurers are introducing large hikes on premiums, mainly in lifelong plans.

9. ATHEX: Week of drop ended with a daily advance

   The local bourse closed for the weekend before Wall Street saw its indexes plummet due to pressure on technology stocks.

10. 14 more suspects charged over EU farm subsidy fraud

    European prosecutors on Friday brought criminal charges against another 14 people suspected of belonging to a gang in central and northern Greece that engaged in alleged fraud involving European Union farm subsidies.