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  1. The certification process for the new Coradia Stream electric trains has begun on the Greek railway network, as part of Hellenic Train’s rolling stock renewal investment program. 
  2. Investments by US nationals in Greek real estate through the country’s Golden Visa program rose by 30% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to data from Varnavas Law Firm, which specializes in real estate and investment migration. 
  3. We tend to blame many of our harmful political habits on the Constitution. However, there is nothing in it preventing a sincere evaluation of civil servants or the meritocratic selection of the judicial leadership.
  4. The bourse benchmark spent all day in the red, though its decline was somewhat mitigated toward the end of the week’s first session.
  5. Traffic police have stopped a total 16,047 motorbikes and e-scooters all over the country in the week ending Sunday and fined more than 1,240 people for not wearing crash helmets, police said Monday.
  6. The government is planning tax bonuses for small and medium-sized enterprises, attempting to provide a substantial injection of liquidity.
  7. Delivery services, short-term rental management and rooms-to let-businesses make up the bulk of emerging entrepreneurship in Greece.
  8. This is a rich one-pan dish, with everything that’s already in the title – eggs, spicy sotzouki sausage, aromatic pastourma and tangy kaseri cheese – and even more, including soft feta, fragrant mint and sweet cherry tomatoes. What more could you ask for from a single frying pan?
  9. A senior Turkish government official has raised the issue of the demilitarization of Greek islands days before Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, as well as other Turkish officials.