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1. Cartoon (06/04/2026)

2. Despite attrition, poll shows ND maintains double-digit lead over PASOK

   In the first opinion poll following the new farm subsidy investigations, the governing conservatives have lost a little ground and the main opposition Socialists registered slight gains, but the margin between the two top parties remains in the double digits.

3. Man found dead by road in Pallini, authorities investigate

   A 50-year-old man was found dead on Monday afternoon at the side of a road in Pallini, northeastern Athens. 

4. Lawmakers and their ‘clients’

   We are shocked by the dialogues included in the case file of the OPEKEPE agricultural subsidy scandal because they exude clientelism, corruption and endless cynicism.

5. Greece’s feta at the center of global cheese-naming dispute

   Feta and other European-style cheeses are at the heart of an international trade dispute over naming rights. The EU maintains that cheeses like feta, Parmesan, Asiago, and gorgonzola can only bear those names if produced in their traditional regions following strict methods.

6. Seven arrests on Chios over preparations for Easter rocket war

   Police on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios have arrested seven people who were injured in a fire at an illegal fireworks workshop ahead of an iconic local tradition in which hundreds of rockets are fired during Easter celebrations.

7. Traffic police spot checks nab one in five truckers

   Thousands of spot checks on haulage trucks and other heavy vehicles in the Greater Athens region have found one in five drivers in violation of some rule or safety regulation, authorities said Monday. 

8. Pierrakakis: Greece well positioned to absorb impact of Middle East crisis

   Greece is on a growth trajectory and well positioned to absorb the impact of the Middle East crisis, Eurogroup President and Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has asserted. 

9. Major phone scam gang broken, loot exceded €1.2 million in a few months

   A concerted police crackdown in three parts of Greece involving counter-terrorism officers and drones has broken a highly organized gang of phone scam artists who made about €1.3 million in a few months, authorities said Monday.

10. Trump, NATO, Britain and Newton’s Law

    Donald Trump seems to have three types of behavior toward others: he attacks anyone who does not submit immediately to his demands, he expresses support for those who tread on human rights and undermine liberal democracy, and he presses those who are in a difficult position, to get what he wants.