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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. Mitsotakis seeks inspiration from Cyprus as SYRIZA faces domestic mire
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    Nikos Pappas in particular, approached him when the initial tender for TV licences was launched in 2016... elections as municipal councilor in Piraeus, where his right-hand man Yiannis Moralis has been mayor

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  5. Government offers free holidays, bigger fines and more hirings in evolving fire response
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    Nikos Hardalias for the country’s biggest region instead. New Democracy also announced this week...-largest city. The conservatives said they will also back Piraeus Mayor Yiannis Moralis for a second

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  6. Reshuffle on horizon as second OPEKEPE dossier rattles government

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    of one former rural affairs minister and three deputy ministers, but the two resulting parliamentary... another former rural development minister and his deputy, relating to the same period. The scandal... to manage the political fallout. The list includes two current cabinet members, Rural Affairs Minister

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  7. Newsletter 306 - 23/07/2021

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    received at least one jab, while around 44 pct was fully vaccinated. Professor Vana Papaevaggelou... to punish the unvaccinated rather than convince them to get the jab. The latest developments have... to the results, SYRIZA education spokesman Nikos Filis commented that they “complete the image

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  8. Govt plays down Omicron threat despite wariness and high Covid death rate
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    uptick in the number of Greeks either getting their first vaccine or their booster jab. According to officials, around 20,000 people a day are getting their first jab and around 60,000 their booster... to be ahead of his two main rivals, Papandreou and MEP Nikos Androulakis. However, the same surveys

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  9. 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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  10. 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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