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Baerbock visit leaves Athens hopeful of shift in Germany's stance on Greek-Turkish disputes
PoliticsForeign Policyprovoked anger in Turkey, which was evident during the joint press conference with her Turkish... opinion if she had also criticized Greece, whom he accused of failing to respect ECHR rulings regarding
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PM scrambles to rein in political fallout as deadly crash threatens to upend election contest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs anger over Tuesday’s deadly train collision dominates the front pages of the national papers, the search for the causes behind the accident has supplanted speculation over elections at the top... the European Commission’s decision in February to take Greece to court for failing to put in place basic
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
to their polling stations after the Easter celebrations, which also might help dampen the current anger... apologising to the bereaved families and to the nation for failing to prevent the accident
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Sensing weakened government, opposition pushes back against blame-sharing for rail accident
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe continuing expressions of public anger sparked by the deadly train collision in central Greece almost two weeks ago have given the opposition the upper hand as New Democracy struggles to maintain... of bearing the responsibility for delays in implementing upgrades and failing to account for over 3 billion
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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/02/goldendawntorches_myrto_1000_011-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicsanger against the government. Prior to the accident the party occasionally edged close to the 3 pct...With opinion polls failing to predict a clear-cut result in May’s elections, attention has turned to the leadership manoeuvrings of the new far right party Ellines (Greeks), whose entry
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Floods force Mitsotakis to postpone policy speech amid political fallout from ferry death
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the storms, and the public anger at the lack of preparedness by the authorities. However... leader Nikos Androulakis accused the government of failing to put in place adequate prevention
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ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
Societyin the rural than the urban areas. The average monthly expenditure in the urban areas fell 7.1 percent in 2013 and 28.6 percent since 2009. In contrast, the figures for the rural areas posted almost the half... is consistently above that in rural areas, yet the deviation significantly narrowed over the past
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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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Opposition takes aim at PM's inner circle over subsidy fraud as scandal halts ND rebound
PoliticsGreek Politicspayments, 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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