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1. PM invites protesting farmers to talks

   As farmers protesting delayed aid payments staged a blockade at Thessaloniki port in northern Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday invited them for dialogue to resolve the impasse.

2. Turkey says no change in Russian S-400s amid US talks on F-35s

   Turkey and the United States are discussing the US sanctions and obstacles to Ankara rejoining the F-35 jet program but nothing has changed with respect to its possession of Russian S-400 air defenses, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.

3. Farmers stage protest at Thessaloniki port over aid delays

   Farmers and livestock breeders from across Greece drove tractors, agricultural vehicles and tourist buses to Thessaloniki port on Friday as part of a nationwide protest against delays in farm aid payments and rising production costs.

4. Delays persist in ISAP train upgrade project

   Delays continue in the project to upgrade 14 trains on the ISAP electric railway, also known as Line 1 of the Athens Metro, which runs between Piraeus in the south and Kifissia in the north.

5. Man arrested over online threats against Thessaloniki mayor

   Authorities have arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of posting threatening and abusive messages online against Thessaloniki Mayor Stelios Angeloudis.

6. Greece pledges €20 million to NATO fund for Ukraine

   Greece will contribute €20 million to the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a NATO- and US-developed mechanism to coordinate and fund Kyiv’s most urgent battlefield needs, Kathimerini has learned.

7. Greece outpaces eurozone but still trails pre-crisis output

   Greece’s economy grew faster than the eurozone in the third quarter 2025, although its real gross domestic product remained 14.8% below its second-quarter-2007 peak, Eurobank said on Thursday. 

8. 15 arrested in Crete over suspected €1.7 mln farm subsidy fraud

   Police on Friday launched an investigation into a new case of alleged fraudulent farm subsidies on the southern island of Crete involving the country’s beleaguered farm-payment agency OPEKEPE.

9. Farmers hold roadblocks nationwide ahead of key meeting

   Farmers and livestock breeders remained at roadblocks across the country on Friday, holding local assemblies ahead of a nationwide meeting of blockade representatives scheduled for Saturday at noon at the Nikaia blockade near the central city of Larissa.

10. How events are made

    With the exception of natural disasters, the “events” that the late British prime minister Harold Macmillan feared rarely occur suddenly. They are prepared quietly and slowly. Take the Tempe railway disaster. It took years to reach that tragedy. Despite repeated warnings about the condition of the rail network, there was negligence; vested interests that blocked […]