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1. State property agency to be ready by this fall

   By the end of the fall, the Real Estate Acquisition and Leaseback Agency will be operational, Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis said Friday.

2. Turbomed to demonstrate onboard turbocharging balancing at Posidonia

   Turbomed specializes in turbocharger repair, onboard maintenance solutions and spare parts supply.

3. Stalled reform

   Starting Friday, tens of thousands of families will live through the anxiety of the nationwide university entrance exams. The system is incorruptible – but that is also its only advantage.

4. Cartoon (29/05/2026)

5. New parties, old politics

   Let’s say a young person is undecided and does not yet know who to vote for in the next election. The conservative government, on a daily basis, demonstrates its establishment mentality.

6. ATHEX: Turnover in tops €1 billion

   May ended at the Greek stock market on Friday with monthly gains of 8.41%.

7. Symbols without meaning

   In our turbulent time it is alarming that new parties are born and the political debate is held in an ideological framework which has no relation with the challenges that we must face.

8. Deputy environment and energy minister Tagaras dies

   Deputy Environment and Energy Minister Nikos Tagaras has died aged 70, after a long illness.

9. Gang sold cars stolen in Greece, Italy

   An international police cooperation has led to the dismantling of a Greece-based ring that sold luxury cars stolen in the Greater Athens region and in Italy, authorities said Friday.

10. Greece, South Korea ink deal on Elefsina shipyard investments

    ONEX and Hanwha Ocean have signed a memorandum of cooperation in Athens for a new shipbuilding, industrial and defense ecosystem centered on Elefsina through a strategic partnership between Greece, the United States and South Korea.