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1. Us and the mirror

   European institutions sometimes hold up a mirror to us, in which we see Greece’s bad side. This was especially true during the years of the economic crisis, when the entire administrative structure and the political mores that shaped it came under scrutiny. 

2. ATHEX: Minimal rise as concerns persist

   The growth in oil rates served to cap optimism, with the benchmark closing on the day’s low.

3. Bikers still defying crash helmet law

   More than 1.400 people on motorbikes and e-scooters were fined οver the past week for not wearing crash helmets, police said Monday, in a slight increase over the previous week.

4. E-fraud insurance is soaring

   People are rushing to take up policies protecting them from online crime, cyberattacks and hacking.

5. Violanta production manager released under conditions as probe continues

   The production manager of the Violanta biscuit factory, where five workers were killed in a major gas explosion in January, has been granted conditional release from pretrial detention after giving testimony to the investigating magistrate in the case.

6. Phone scammer walks off with €20,000

   A fake power company employee has talked an 85-year-old woman in northern Greece into handing him €20,000 in cash that she kept at home using a common but highly effective scam, police said Monday.

7. Waiting for the next populist leader

   US President Donald Trump captured the anxiety and anger of a middle class that no longer felt truly middle class. Life had become prohibitively expensive due to inflation, and the American dream – owning a home or obtaining a university degree – had become out of reach for much of the younger generation.

8. Suspected migrant smugglers arrested in Evros

   Three suspected members of migrant smuggling gangs have been arrested in northern Greece for allegedly ferrying westwards, squashed into cars, people who had just clandestinely entered from neighboring Turkey.

9. Thessaloniki man held for dumping waste on municipal plot

   A 60-year-old Thessaloniki man faces charges of breaking environmental protection laws after being arrested in the act of illegally dumping waste on public land, authorities said Monday.

10. Toxicology tests find traces of drugs and alcohol in body of dead Kefalonia teen

    A young woman who died in suspicious circumstances two weeks ago on the island of Kefalonia had traces of drugs in her blood, toxicology tests on her body have reportedly found.