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  1. Newsletter 482 - 31/10/2025

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    familiar: Stalled subsidy payments, rising rural anger, fraying unity inside New Democracy, and a centre... and historic compensation delays has pushed the traditionally conservative-voting rural community... ministers implicated in the probes — former rural development minister Lefteris Avgenakis and Makis

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  2. Newsletter 483 - 07/11/2025

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    % of mail are now delivered directly to homes. Internal and rural discontent Yet the rollout... chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. MPs from rural constituencies were particularly... tensions in rural Greece, where delays in agricultural subsidies and the ongoing sheep pox crisis have

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  3. Newsletter 484 - 14/11/2025

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    PoliticsMitsotakis bets on energy diplomacy and rural outreachPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... at Alexandroupoli airport. Local media described the scene as emblematic of rural frustration, where anger... for natural disasters. Yet his assurances failed to calm the mood. Rural voters feel increasingly abandoned

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  4. In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
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    is an atheist, meeting monks was indeed unusual. It was the first such visit by a leftist leader since... and that it has to seize every opportunity if it is going to make headway in rural areas.

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  5. TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger

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    and 1990 but is mostly known for owning a construction firm that won numerous public contracts... by State Minister Nikos Pappas in the wake of the result of the auction being announced in the early

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  6. Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
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    Nikos Pappas to oversee the process rather than the National Council for Radio and Television... links to Attica Bank apart from owning an account there. Spirtzis, though, did turn his fire on Bank

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  7. Tsipras facing more media intervention claims after changes at newspaper
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    Nikos Pappas. He was also president of the board at Avgi, the daily newspaper backed by SYRIZA. Although... of its powers, publishing four newspapers and more than 20 magazines as well as owning a stake in Greece

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  8. Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers

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    the alleged involvement of two former rural development ministers, reported to be New Democracy’s.... “There was a central mechanism at OPEKEPE and at the (rural development) ministry directing them,” the opposition... that this penalty was for administrative failures is not convincing and called for the current Rural

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  9. Opposition takes aim at PM's inner circle over subsidy fraud as scandal halts ND rebound

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    payments, it has emerged that the instruction was overridden a few months later when a new rural... the high turnover at the top of the organisation and in the rural development ministry which oversees... appears in the EPPO file to have warned the then minister of rural development Makis Voridis

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  10. ELTA CEO resignation fails to stem political fallout from post office closures

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    voters have been complaining about rural abandonment. Rural voters say that this is the latest... sensitive time. Deputies from rural constituencies have been at the sharp end of complaints from voters over... for the organisation’s management. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis accused New Democracy of “devaluing ELTA and using

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