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1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · John Hadoulis (AFP)

   Pirate island's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline (opens the original)

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   “Let’s go to war!” shouted six-year-old Giorgos at his older cousin, Minas, as the two chased each other with claw-like geranium stalks around the schoolyard on the tiny Greek island of Thymaina. The two boys are the last primary school children on the far-flung eastern Aegean island, 40 kilometres from the Turkish coast. “When I was a boy, the school had nearly 70 children,” 77-year-old Manolis Mitikas, owner of Thymaina’s portside cantina, mused over a game of backgammon. Like the rest of Gree

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2. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · John Hadoulis (AFP)

   Four Greek MPs indicted in EU farm scandal (opens the original)

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   Four Greek members of parliament from the ruling party were among 22 people indicted on Thursday over a multi-million-euro EU farm subsidy scandal that has rocked the government. The indicted defendants included “several former high-ranked public officials and political staff, as part of an investigation into an alleged organised fraud scheme involving agricultural funds”, the European prosecutor’s office said. They have estimated the bloc’s losses from the alleged scheme at more than 19.6 milli

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