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1. Accountant’s tip leads to another art forgery bust

   Authorities have uncovered another case involving hundreds of suspected forged paintings, months after a man, 63, was jailed on similar charges.

2. Brussels sees four imbalances in Greek economy

   The European Commission has included Greece in the seven member-states with economic imbalances, based on its “Alert Mechanism Report” released on Tuesday in the context of the European Semester.

3. Agamemnon’s journey to China

   At the Sanxingdui Museum in China, visitors wait patiently to pose behind a life-size replica of the famed “Mask of Agamemnon,” created from a new three-dimensional digital model.

4. Demographic deficit to shave 0.4% off GDP growth every year

   Greece fares the worst among the developed countries in Europe regarding the adverse effects of the demographic problem, according to a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) report.

5. Taxi unions demand extension of EV deadline

   Greek taxi unions are pushing back against a looming shift to electric vehicles, as a law set to take effect on January 1 requires all new taxi registrations in Athens and Thessaloniki to be zero-emission.

6. Collective labor pact protections restored

   Greek employers and labor unions reached a historic agreement on Wednesday aimed at restoring key aspects of collective labor law and expanding the coverage of collective bargaining agreements, officials said.

7. German MP urges reopening of Halki Theological School

   German lawmaker Thomas Rachel urged Turkey to reopen the long-shuttered Theological School of Halki ahead of Thursday’s visit by Pope Leo XIV to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

8. How Greece’s brain drain challenges its identity

   Highly trained workers, but a labor market that fails to reward that talent – a contradiction that has shaped one of the most pressing issues of post-crisis Greece: brain drain.

9. RRF disbursement of €2.1 billion to Greece

   The European Commission on Wednesday disbursed a payment of 2.1 billion euros from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to Greece, following the positive assessment of the 6th payment request for the Facility’s grants, which had been submitted in mid-July.

10. Hydrocarbon reserves are ‘of strategic value’

    Energean CEO Mathios Rigas spoke of Greece’s emergence as an increasingly important energy hub in statements following the announcement of the company’s quarterly results on Wednesday, while referring to the entry of ExxonMobil into the Ionian Sea’s Block 2.