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  1. Pension reform to be one of new government's toughest challenges in next weeks
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    EconomyProgramme

    for employees (IKA). 5) Abolition from October 31 of all nuisance charges financing pensions to be offset

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  2. Greece passes latest omnibus bill, looks to next actions ahead
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    settlement, nuisance taxes and minimum prices for generic drugs. Apart from this, the next list of prior

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  3. Greece’s embattled commercial steel market industry braced for more challenges
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    cheap Chinese steel has gone from a business nuisance to a factor that has thrown the European

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  4. Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    outside the EU, into the incident will no doubt be seen as a nuisance by the government. Whether it has

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

    PoliticsGreek Politics

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

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  8. Farmers dig in as clashes and political tension escalate
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , 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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  9. Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  10. Government fails to break deadlock in dispute with farmers as SYRIZA loses MEP
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . 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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