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  1. Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Hatsivassileiou, Deputy Rural Development Minister Dionyssis Stamenitis and Deputy Digital Governance Minister Christos Boukoros, as well as the Rural Development Ministry’s general secretary, Giorgos... that the former head of OPEKEPE, Grigoris Varras, twice informed Voridis when he was the rural

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  2. 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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  3. 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

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  4. Farmers dig in as clashes and political tension escalate
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    , exposing the fragility of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s rural compact and fuelling opposition... to 363 million euros, down from 476 million last year. The Ministry of Rural Development and Food... with rural realities. Farmers represent a powerful social group, and their mobilisation threatens

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  5. Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
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    the depth of rural anger and placed fresh pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s administration..., while opposition parties are eager to amplify rural grievances. For now, the farmers’ mobilisation... the spectre of democratic erosion at a time when the government is already under pressure from rural unrest

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  6. Government fails to break deadlock in dispute with farmers as SYRIZA loses MEP
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    . On Wednesday, Deputy PM Kostis Hatzidakis and Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras tabled a package... turned its back on producers and rural communities, while accusing the government of using divisive... from several blockades across the country had written to the rural affairs minister to request

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  7. Farmers threaten more action after inconclusive meeting as Karystianou courts controversy

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    December, reflects deeper strains in Greece’s rural economy. Rising fuel and electricity prices have... become a flashpoint. For Mitsotakis, the timing is delicate. With elections approaching, rural discontent.... For the government, limiting concessions preserves credibility but risks alienating rural voters

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  8. Revenues at 4.77 bln in Oct, beating target for fourth straight month

    Economy

    estimates a gg primary surplus of 812 million (0.4 percent of GDP) in 2013, higher than the initially

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  9. Greek primary surplus at 400 mln to Oct but arrears keep piling up

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    EAP terms and comparable to the government’s estimate of 812 million for the whole year 2013

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  10. Budget passed but troika accord still some way off for Greece

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . - Achievement of a general government primary surplus of 812 million (0.4 percent of GDP) in 2013

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