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1. Easter exodus: almost 630,000 cars left Athens

   More than 250,000 passenger cars left Athens through the two major national highways to the north and west of the city on Thursday and Friday alone, police announced.

2. Cartoon (10/04/2026)

3. Housing prices rising, with no end in sight

   Greece’s housing market continued to post strong increases in both property prices and rental rates in the first quarter of the year, with no clear sign of a slowdown.

4. Israel, marching into the unknown

   Israel is always just one defeat away from catastrophe. The fact that it is an island of 10 million people in a sea of Arabs and other Muslims demands that it be constantly vigilant, ready to fight.

5. Bolder measures needed

   All the data show that real estate prices have continued to rise. Despite the subsidizing programs implemented for special categories of citizens, housing continues to become more expensive and beyond the reach of people with an average income.

6. Academic qualifications spark controversy over official’s appointment

   Newly appointed Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis faces opposition demands for his resignation over his degree from the College of Southeastern Europe. 

7. Subway and tram schedules for Friday and Saturday

   Athens subway trains will end their run earlier on Good Friday and Saturday, Athens Urban Rail Transport has announced.

8. ‘Tsilihourda’ from Corfu

   The dish is traditionally prepared on Holy Saturday and eaten after the Easter Resurrection. In earlier times, in some areas, it was eaten on Sunday, as the Resurrection service took place at dawn rather than late Saturday night.

9. Productivity remains Greek economy’s big problem, OECD report notes

   Low productivity remains an obstacle to the further convergence of the Greek economy with the most developed economies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

10. Man in Crete nabbed for importing, transporting weapons

    Police in Crete have arrested a 68-year-old man after they found undeclared weapons in his suitcase and then at his home in Hania.