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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsserved at the Rural Development Ministry during the 2019-2024 period investigated by the European... OPEKEPE officials allegedly colluded with representatives of the Rural Development Ministry... of the responsibility for the matter, 87 pct say that rural development ministers should be held
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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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Government fails to break deadlock in dispute with farmers as SYRIZA loses MEP
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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ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsa meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos... representation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which... to use a sliding scale so the bonus is linked to the winning party’s performance. “We can’t have
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Newsletter 113 - 31/03/2017
Skourletis, now head of the Interior Ministry, warned in an op-ed on Monday against the “cannibalisation... consenting to the proposed debt restructuring. Three binding offers were submitted for the acquisition... investment groups that have tabled binding bids. One the biggest stumbling blocks to have emerged
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Fallout from Ukraine war being fed into calculations about next general elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInterior Minister Stelios Petsas said that he does not expect elections, which are scheduled to take place... law with the aim of reducing the level of support needed for the winning party to claim.... The report suggested that the PM’s office has drawn up a scheme that would give the winning party
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agorarefugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee... in the hope of finding security, employment and welfare in a prosperous, democratic and socially liberal
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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
to recognise reality, while finding someone to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de... on Friday meant that the focus was very much on finding common ground on issues such as growth
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicslast week. Ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis attended the meeting, taking a different approach... at the next elections by winning back centre-left voters from SYRIZA and crushing the radical leftist... the kind of backing he would like from sections of PASOK in order to have a chance of winning the race
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