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  1. Fresh inquiry looms as file on farming subsidy investigation reaches Parliament
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    emerged so far from the 3,000-page file confirms earlier reports that two former rural development... payments scandal over the coming months. The Rural Development Ministry is already bracing for a backlash..., this concerns 2.9 million euros handed out for fraudulently declared livestock. Rural Development Minister

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025

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    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...% of households in cities and 28% in rural areas fall into this category, compared with roughly 10% in EU cities

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  5. Farmers anger resonates with public as government struggles to resolve dispute

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    solutions to support rural communities. While the MPs did not break with the party line... to deliver tangible relief to rural Greece but also to maintain cohesion within his party. What began..., internal critics and rural communities are all vying to shape the narrative. Opinion poll Against

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  6. Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers

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    of farmers who have turned against the government in rural constituencies. Feeling the heat from among its... a resolution over the coming days. In a marathon meeting on Wednesday, MPs from rural districts vented their frustration to Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras and the officials tasked

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  7. 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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  8. The television will not be revolutionised
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    procedure lacks the legal safeguards to ensure the independence and pluralism of the supervisory

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  9. Athens seeks enhanced regional role via international religious conference

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    The Greek government's decision to host the international conference on Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East, which begins in Athens on Sunday and runs through to Tuesday, has two main aims. The first aim lies with Athens’s desire to show that it can play

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  10. Press freedom ranking edges up but Tsipras yet to deliver, report finds

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    criteria – pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative environment... promise be kept?” the report said in its paragraph on Greece [https://rsf.org/en/greece]. Ever since

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