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  1. Greece’s education system is facing more than just the challenges of demographic decline and shrinking student enrollment.
  2. Just before midnight on May 30, readers descended into the basement of the Monocle bookshop for an unusual encounter with Franz Kafka.
  3. 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. The behavior of European travelers is changing, directly affecting both the preferred vacation periods and the selected destinations.
  5. 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. A British hiker who required help after being injured on Mount Olympus, Greece's highest mountain, was rescued Friday.
  7. 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. 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. The local bourse closed for the weekend before Wall Street saw its indexes plummet due to pressure on technology stocks.
  10. 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.