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1. PM meets farmers, signals electricity and fuel support amid protests

   Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met for over three-and-a-half hours on Tuesday with 25 representatives of the country’s agricultural sector at the Maximos Mansion to discuss the challenges facing farmers and the wider primary sector.

2. Traces of teenage girl missing in Peloponnese surface in Athens

   Traces of a German teenager listed missing in southern Greece six days ago have surfaced in Athens, reports said Tuesday.

3. Deadline to settle building irregularities

   Property owners wishing to sell or make a parental concession have until March 31, as the deadline for using the provisions of the law on the legalization of any illegal constructions expires.

4. Phone spyware scandal started as state-private sector partnership, witness says

   Both Greek state and private sector actors were involved in the initial stages of the Predator phone spyware scandal – which targeted politicians, journalists and others – before domestic intelligence took charge of the project, a witness testified Tuesday during the ongoing trial in Athens. Four businessmen are on trial, on misdemeanor charges, for alleged […]

5. Few save for their pension

   Majority of Greeks refrain from taking any steps to improve their post-retirement incomes.

6. X platform hit by widespread outage, users report access issues

   X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced widespread technical problems on Tuesday evening, with tens of thousands of users reporting difficulties accessing the platform.

7. Larissa farmers skip meeting and block road, demand broader representation

   Farmers from the Nikaia protest bloc near Larissa are staging a three-hour road blockade on Tuesday along the old national highway near Platykampos, with tractors set up from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., halting traffic.

8. Striking taxi drivers hold protests in Athens, Thessaloniki

   Honking horns and letting off flares, scores of striking taxi drivers drove their vehicles through central Athens in a protest at the beginning of a two-day strike Tuesday.

9. Trump administration labels 3 Muslim Brotherhood branches as terrorist organizations

   US President Donald Trump’s administration has made good on its pledge to label three Middle Eastern branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them and their members in a decision that could have implications for US relationships with allies Qatar and Turkey.

10. Talks with farmers under way at Maximos Mansion as protests continue

    Farm union delegates were holding talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Maximos Mansion shortly after 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, as nationwide protests and road blockades continued.