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New energy subsidy scheme nearing launch as public remains sceptical
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government submitted to Parliament on Tuesday an amendment paving the way for the latest energy subsidy scheme to be launched in the coming weeks, a programme New Democracy hopes will assuage... subsidy scheme will be launched in mid-June and energy consumers will have around two weeks to submit
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Govt presents menu of energy proposals in Brussels as power subsidy cost balloons
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAthens continues to press for solutions to the energy crisis at an EU level as the cost of domestic subsidy programmes skyrockets, threatening to cut further into the budget. In August the government... in July, pushing the total cost of the subsidy up by 411 million euros compared to the previous month
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot disappeared, leading to the latest measure, which is in effect a subsidy for renters and follows on from... that its previous subsidy schemes, My Home 1 & 2, failed. He also criticised the PM for failing
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Hoping to continue poll recovery, PM tries to put lid on subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has defended his decision to shut down the organisation at the centre of the farming subsidy scandal that has put his government in an uncomfortable spot at a time... that was not on the island but on mainland Greece. This practice is alleged to be at the heart of the subsidy
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the farm subsidy scandal, which is emerging as a much more serious threat to New Democracy than... development minister, that there were problems with the subsidy system. However, Voridis chose to oust
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Government hopeful of weathering subsidy scandal despite public’s finger of blame
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe potentially lasting impact of the farming subsidy affair. The first survey to be published in the wake... Mitsotakis to argue that the corruption of the subsidy process was a result of longstanding failings, pre
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ND courts voters with hardline migration bill as pressure grows over farming subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government yesterday announced a tightening of the migration framework, among a series of reforms which it hopes will move the agenda on from the farming subsidy scandal. At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Migration Minister Makis Voridis unveiled new legislation that will criminalise entering
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politicsprobed in connection to a farming subsidy scandal. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO
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Government shows its concern about Middle East impact, farm subsidy probe
PoliticsGreek Politicshopes. OPEKEPE scandal In his Sunday post, Mitsotakis also referred to the farming subsidy scandal
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Opposition sees ND’s call for broader subsidy inquiry as attempt to muddy waters
PoliticsGreek Politicsof “chronic” failings at OPEKEPE rather than an organised attempt to defraud the subsidy system
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