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  1. Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis chaired for the first time the annual meeting of the European Stability Mechanism board of governors, in his role as as Eurogroup president, in Luxembourg on Thursday.
  2. There are no easy solutions for controlling the continued pressure on prices. There are, however, ideas that were tried and that proved inadequate in a market like the Greek one.
  3. The need to modernize the national strategy against natural disasters was at the center of the second NatCat Summit conference in Athens, organized by Money Review, Kathimerini’s financial website.
  4. It is disheartening that at a time when the United States is not only distancing itself from Europe but is also pressuring it to take responsibility for its own security, European countries are unable to reach solutions of cooperation and unity that would signal new prospects in defense autonomy.
  5. Tax office is archiving debts worth billions of euros as they are considered practically impossible to collect.
  6. The predictable hike of the European Central Bank reference rates gave markets a new boost on Thursday.
  7. A court in Aigio, in the northern Peloponnese, has sentenced James Dalamangas, one of Australia's most wanted fugitives, to two years and nine months in prison for weapons-law violations and giving false testimony.
  8. Nearly 2,200 people on motorcycles, e-scooters and all-terrain vehicles were caught and fined in the first week of June nationwide for not wearing crash helmets, police said Thursday.
  9. A common error persists even among scholars in international relations theory, equating the mere count of Great Powers with the number of systemic poles.