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1. Pierrakakis: Greece is example of support and political will

   Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis chaired for the first time the annual meeting of the European Stability Mechanism board of governors, in his role as as Eurogroup president, in Luxembourg on Thursday.

2. Good intentions are not enough

   There are no easy solutions for controlling the continued pressure on prices. There are, however, ideas that were tried and that proved inadequate in a market like the Greek one.

3. Weather forecasts favor insurance

   The need to modernize the national strategy against natural disasters was at the center of the second NatCat Summit conference in Athens, organized by Money Review, Kathimerini’s financial website.

4. From Bono to a European fighter jet

   It is disheartening that at a time when the United States is not only distancing itself from Europe but is also pressuring it to take responsibility for its own security, European countries are unable to reach solutions of cooperation and unity that would signal new prospects in defense autonomy.

5. Debts of €6 bln are discarded

   Tax office is archiving debts worth billions of euros as they are considered practically impossible to collect.

6. Cartoon (11/06/2026)

7. ATHEX: Bourse happy with interest rate increase

   The predictable hike of the European Central Bank reference rates gave markets a new boost on Thursday.

8. Greek court sentences Australian fugitive in weapons case

   A court in Aigio, in the northern Peloponnese, has sentenced James Dalamangas, one of Australia's most wanted fugitives, to two years and nine months in prison for weapons-law violations and giving false testimony.

9. Traffic police fine nearly 2,200 people for not wearing crash helmets

   Nearly 2,200 people on motorcycles, e-scooters and all-terrain vehicles were caught and fined in the first week of June nationwide for not wearing crash helmets, police said Thursday.

10. China and Iran’s nuclear agenda

    A common error persists even among scholars in international relations theory, equating the mere count of Great Powers with the number of systemic poles.