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  1. Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025

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    week has been dominated by payouts, protests and a memoir that hints at comeback. Prime Minister... over delayed subsidies and the OPEKEPE payments scandal threatens to boil over. Rural Development... no sign of fading, and risks eroding the government’s credibility among rural voters. Labour deal

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  2. PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come

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    , while some rural districts will lose seats as a result of dwindling population. Three seats will also

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  3. Government on mission to manage expectations in anticipation of tough winter
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    is now clearly tempered by the acknowledgement that some of the more extreme scenarios now appear firmly... to the electoral map to the existing seven, mostly in the islands and rural areas of the country.

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  4. Newsletter 276 -04/12/2020

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    there is increasing concern about the spread of the virus in surrounding rural areas and within households. The ruling... questioned increasingly by opposition parties, following hints in the media from members

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  5. Newsletter 441 - 15/11/2024

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    minor, in symbolic terms it will deliver another huge blow to SYRIZA, which now looks to be sliding... in four people in urban areas and one in three in rural areas live at risk of poverty and social

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  6. Opposition parties continue to pursue wiretap claims, as surveillance bill passes first hurdle

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    the intelligence service EYP to the operation of the Predator spyware via a government contractor... from invoices and bank statements pertaining to the activities of EYP contractor Krikel, which..., transactions totalling 5.3 million euros linked to the government contractor appear to have escaped

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  7. Tsipras delivers SYRIZA's first, tempered message of Greek election campaign
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    Alexis Tsipras delivered his first major election campaign speech on Saturday at a SYRIZA party congress in Athens. There was little new in what Tsipras had to say as he essentially went over the policy points he set out in September during a speech at ...

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  8. Economic sentiment picks up in Oct, consumer confidence sliding again

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    Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) improved in October, with the index at 107.5 points, from 106.2 in the previous month, according to European Commission figures released on Thursday. Over the rolling 12-month period, October’s ESI was marginally up by ...

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  9. Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
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    into a corner. Images in the media of riot police confronting citizens in rural communities are causing... the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted

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  10. OPEKEPE hearings ruffle feathers in New Democracy as party waits for Samaras’s next move

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    to the inquiry, in which he claims that he was pressured into resigning by the then rural development... clashed with private contractors appointed by Voridis when he refused to approve fraudulent claims

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