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1. Higher costs, finding staff, climate change main challenges for retail commerce

   Increased costs, finding and retaining staff, and climate change are the main problems of retail and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), according to a survey by the Research Institute for Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA) published on Wednesday. 

2. Slow justice, sensational TV

   How quickly and decisively judicial authorities should act is open to debate – but this should not be confused with the broader modern demand for “instant results.”

3. The digitizing of bureaucracy

   The goal of each electronic platform attached to Gov.gr was, according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to facilitate citizens’ access to various public services, and to remove all sorts of intermediaries and mediators.

4. ATHEX: Stocks ease, but a jump appears due

   The majority of stocks at Athinon Avenue recorded minor losses on Wednesday.

5. Primary surplus more than double target

   A primary surplus of 4.667 billion euros, on a modified cash basis for the January-June 2025 period, was recorded in the budget execution, compared to a target of €2.235 billion, and a primary surplus of €2.905 billion for the same period in 2024.

6. Old practices

   The ruling conservatives’ proposal to establish a parliamentary committee to retrospectively investigate agricultural subsidies since 1998 – the year the OPEKEPE farm subsidy agency was founded – was not particularly prudent.

7. Five detained, including ex-wife, over Berkeley professor’s murder in Athens

   Five individuals, including his former wife, have been detained in connection with the July 4 murder of a University of California Berkeley professor in northern Athens. 

8. Foreign investments to suffer moderate blow from tariffs

   Foreign companies are slightly less likely to invest in Greece in the coming year.

9. Signs of tourism slowdown

   However, Athens and Thessaloniki continue to post rising rates of growth in terms of arrivals.

10. Trump promised Patriots for Ukraine. Now Europe has to provide them

    President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements.