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1. Athens rebuts Rama timeline claim 

   Athens distanced itself from Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s assessment that an agreement on delimiting an Exclusive Economic Zone could be reached by year’s end, saying it does not share that view, a senior diplomatic source said.

2. Room for more steps

   Many important steps have been taken by the state, especially this year, to offer tax relief for working people with children.

3. ATHEX: Late rally offsets losses posted earlier

   The local market appears to toe the line of the major European bourses.

4. Cartoon (23/04/2026)

5. A humanoid joins the Greek factory floor

   Greece is entering the race to build humanoid factory workers, unveiling its first domestically developed industrial robot, MARK One, ahead of its public debut this week (April 25-27) at the Automation & Robotics Expo 2026 in Athens. 

6. Man arrested over fatal stabbing of 25-year-old in Athens park

   Police in Greece arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of killing a 25-year-old whose body was found Wednesday in Asyrmatou Park in the Athens suburb of Agios Dimitrios.

7. Radio outage cripples police operations

   Police units across Attica have been coordinating operations through mobile phones in recent days after the encrypted Tetra Sepura communication system at the Athens Police Operations Center went offline.

8. Greece to be overtaken by Italy as eurozone’s most indebted country in 2026

   Greece will no longer be the euro zone’s most indebted country by the ​end of this year, with its public debt set ‌to fall below Italy’s, according to sources and data from Italy’s new budget plan.

9. Shouldn’t we be producing more?

   If there is one thing the upheaval in energy prices over the last 50 days has opened our eyes to, it is just how many other areas of the economy have been operating with similar fluctuations for years – and not because of a war – and we did nothing to address it.

10. Dance for Well-Being | Aegina | June 15-16

    A six-day movement workshop at Oikia Karapanou on the island of Aegina brings together UK-based artists Kirstie Simson and Charlie Brittain for an immersive exploration of embodied practice.