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   The parties have effectively launched their election campaigns, part of which involves recruiting figures from rival parties and promoting loyal party insiders.

2. Before the hook: Fighting nicotine’s early grip

   One in six young Greeks between 16 and 24 smokes daily, and first contact with nicotine products often begins at age 10, according to new data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority.

3. Greece’s debt to continue its downward trajectory

   Greece will continue to be the champion in debt reduction in the eurozone in the coming years, according to Scope Ratings, which estimates that by 2031 the Greek debt ratio will be lower than that of Italy, France and Belgium and close to the levels of Finland.

4. ATHEX: Buyers’ thirst appears to be quenched

   The rising sequence in the Greek bourse appears to have reached its end after Wednesday’s ascent.

5. Greece sent the art; Rome built the empire

   An exhibition tracing ancient Greek art’s influence on Roman culture has opened at the Acropolis Museum, running through August 30.

6. This Greek museum network has its own beer

   The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) is launching its own beer – and we got a first taste before it arrives at the cafés and museum shops across its venues.

7. Unemployed man held over €450,000 phone scam

   An unemployed man suspected of belonging to an organized ring of phone scammers that made nearly half a million euros in just two hits targeting elderly people has been arrested in Athens, authorities said Wednesday.

8. Athens to face traffic restrictions Tuesday for road races

   Traffic restrictions will be imposed next Tuesday, June 23, in central Athens and the nearby suburb of Kallithea due to road races held as part of the SNF Nostos Run 2026.

9. Two held on Kefalonia over mail-delivery marijuana

   Two men have been arrested on the western island of Kefalonia after allegedly ordering more than a kilogram of marijuana by mail, authorities said Wednesday.

10. Thessaloniki pedestrian stabbed for jacket, phone

    Three men were arrested in central Thessaloniki early Wednesday for allegedly robbing a pedestrian at knife-point and stabbing him, authorities said.