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1. Golden Aviation strengthens maritime connections and connectivity

   Golden Aviation Ltd will use Posidonia 2026 as a platform to reconnect with existing maritime clients.

2. Normec Verifavia to highlight maritime sustainability verification services

   Maritime verification and auditing specialist Normec Verifavia returns to Posidonia for a second time, focusing on the growing need for independent assurance as environmental regulations reshape shipping operations.

3. Posidonia 2026 opens its gates as Strait of Hormuz remains closed

   Launch of the biennial event at the Metropolitan Expo center.

4. Monk Epiphanios’ Athonite fish soup

   This fish soup recipe shared with Gastronomos by a monk on Mount Athos, Epiphanios Pantokratorinos, is rich in ingredients, containing vegetables, rice, and egg-lemon sauce. He always boils the fish with their heads, for the flavorful stock they yield, and garnishes the soup with a sprinkling of spicy chili flakes and fresh dill.

5. Kokkalis quits party he founded

   Petros Kokkalis, secretary of political party “Cosmos,” announced his resignation from the party he founded two years ago.

6. ‘Every time someone looks at a photo, the child is abused again’

   The door, marked “No Access,” is always closed. She sits in front of two computer monitors and the window next to her is fitted with one-way glass, hiding what’s going on inside the small office.

7. Tearing Aristophanes apart, gently

   The first time he saw the play “Peace” by Aristophanes was at Athens’ Herod Atticus Theater in the mid-1980s, in a production directed by the legendary Spyros Evangelatos, inspired by the atmosphere of cabarets. 

8. Ten charged in farm subsidies scandal released conditionally after testimony

   Ten of 17 people from Northern Greece charged with receiving illegal farm subsidies were conditionally released after testifying Monday.

9. Rama to ‘old friend’ Tsipras: get rid of ‘reflexes of the past’

   Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has chided his “old friend” and former colleague, Alexis Tsipras, over a statement released by his new party, Greek Left Coalition (ELAS) regarding the injury inflicted on a Greek citizen during a protest.

10. Beleri: Albania using Kushner as ‘bogeyman’

    European Parliament member Fredi Beleri, who grew up in Albania as a member of the Greek minority, spoke against the tourist development project in that country and said the Albanian government’s decision to go ahead with it is “arbitrary.”