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Grassroots protests highlight public discontent with development policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsof living, low wages and poor working conditions and poor healthcare. Seven in 10 are not satisfied... on a range of issues not captured by most polling to date could add to the uncertainty around... to link opposition to privatisation to specific political interests, recent polling suggests
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Newsletter 476 - 19/09/2025
indication of Greeks’ poor spending capacity as SMEs feel that they were left out of the PM’s recent... on the property ladder a luxury for most Greeks. The customary reminder by Eurostat about the poor living..., early polling suggests the electorate remains largely unmoved. The political landscape looks much
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Greek elections: Just the (decisive) details to be settled
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Agorafour-year term and for the general elections to be held in October. But a poor, or unexpectedly good... the 25-percent mark. But apart from Greek pollsters’ poor track record, there are some caveats that should..., in one form or another, are diminishing - no party consistently polling second in recent history has
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Newsletter 396 - 06/10/2023
that SYRIZA has a poor representation in local politics and PASOK has decided not to officially... was a symbolic gesture intended to correct the poor impression made by Kasselakis during his campaign, when he... region, Attica. According to a ProRata poll for Attica TV, Hardalias is polling at 40 pct, with the next
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PM hopes to reset narrative with positive announcements
PoliticsGreek Politics, hoping to put behind him a summer of discontent over inflation and poor public services. The prime... wildfire, high prices and stories about the poor state of the health system, the PM and his team have moved early to pre-empt the inevitable drop in their polling figures. Over the past couple of weeks
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 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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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHatsivassileiou, 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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ELTA CEO resignation fails to stem political fallout from post office closures
PoliticsGreek Politicsvoters 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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Farmers dig in as clashes and political tension escalate
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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Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 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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