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1. EU rejects ‘TurkAegean’ a second time

   The European Union’s intellectual property agency has rejected an appeal by Turkey’s tourism promotion body against a 2025 decision cancelling the “TurkAegean” trademark, in a ruling welcomed by Greece as a vindication of its longstanding objections.

2. Finland open to qualified majority voting on EU foreign policy issues

   Helsinki supports decision-making on certain EU foreign policy issues by qualified majority voting (i.e. 80% of member-states), Finland Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told Kathimerini in an interview during her visit to Athens this week.

3. Crackdown on illegal power hookups

   Raids on Roma camps west of Athens have uncovered extensive illegal hookups to the power network and a series of traffic violations, police said Friday.

4. 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.

5. Man given life sentence for wife’s murder

   A 41-year-old man found guilty of murdering his 32-year-old wife and hiding her body in the attic of their home in the Athens district of Ambelokipi in December 2024 has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

6. Migration chief threatens ‘very harsh’ response to surge in arrivals on Crete

   Greece’s hardline migration minister, Thanos Plevris, threatened unspecified “very harsh” measures against asylum seekers should heavy migratory flows continue in small boats from north Africa to Crete.

7. Poll: Tsipras jockeys into 2nd place in ratings, SYRIZA evaporates

   Alexis Tsipras’ fledgling Greek Left Alliance, or ELAS, has displaced Socialist PASOK as the country’s potential main opposition party, according to the first opinion poll conducted after the left-wing former prime minister launched his political comeback this week.

8. Greek charged in UK with assisting foreign intelligence service linked to Iran

   A Greek national has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, believed to be Iran’s, over the targeting of a ‌journalist working for the London-based television station Iran International, British police have said.

9. Protection against a second casus belli

   The imminent Turkish bill will likely exclude the ‘Blue Homeland’ doctrine and the ‘gray zones,’ but it is the basis for serious problems in the future. How can Athens respond?

10. Papadimitriou and Koujianou Goldberg to receive Bodossaki Excellence Award

    Two internationally acclaimed Greek academics in the fields of computer science and economics have been named recipients of this year’s Bodossaki Excellence Award, the Bodossaki Foundation has announced. The foundation said the award will go to Christos Papadimitriou, Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, William Nordhaus Professor of […]