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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

    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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Farmers threaten more action after inconclusive meeting as Karystianou courts controversy

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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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  7. The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
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    create sovereign financing instruments that support the emerging recovery? Finding the money... lending? The provision of adequate funding remains essential in order to make the emerging economic... lessons to be learned and applied in the short-term for Athens. Funding the recovery in Greece will need

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  8. Ankara springs surprise on Athens with Libya maritime deal

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Mogherini. Cairo and the Parliament of Eastern Libya, which supports commander Khalifa Haftar, have

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  9. Amid lack of communication, overflights add to Greek-Turkish tension
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who is supported by Russia, is something that has not gone unnoticed by Greece

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  10. Turkey ramps up rhetoric, Greece strengthens presence at Evros border
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    by Khalifa Haftar. The meeting of the five foreign ministers, and especially their joint declaration which

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