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Government tries to appease farmers, will continue to court political centre

The government is trying to display as much flexibility as it can towards protesting farmers, but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sticking to his guns over the induction of centre-left politicians in New Democracy’s ranks even though this is also causing concern among party officials.
In the wake of demonstrations by farmers, mainly from central Greece, Mitsotakis revealed that those affected by Storm Daniel, which destroyed crops and livestock in Thessaly last September, will receive up to 8,000 euros more in initial compensation fo...
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