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Reshuffle on horizon as second OPEKEPE dossier rattles government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof one former rural affairs minister and three deputy ministers, but the two resulting parliamentary... another former rural development minister and his deputy, relating to the same period. The scandal... to manage the political fallout. The list includes two current cabinet members, Rural Affairs Minister
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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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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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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... for the organisation’s management. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis accused New Democracy of “devaluing ELTA and using
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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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Budget passed but troika accord still some way off for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politics. - Achievement of a general government primary surplus of 812 million (0.4 percent of GDP) in 2013... would be in Athens this coming week for several days. Kathimerini’s Brussels correspondent Nikos
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Newsletter 22 - 03/04/2015
, ahead of their recapitalisation. The remaining amount of 310 million concerns the 90 percent of HFSF... Sakellaridis also played down the comments from Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Labour Minister
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Rival parties interpret Novartis settlement differently, serving own ends
PoliticsGreek Politicsstatement, the opposition party noted that 310 mln dollars from the settlement, the overwhelming... the last few days on ex-state minister Nikos Pappas. The ruling party alleges that both officials were
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ND tweaking stimulus measures as SYRIZA flounders in Novartis backwash
PoliticsGreek Politicswill have to pay sanctions of around 310 million dollars, of which 85 million dollars relates to bribery... secret recording being released, this time of former State Minister Nikos Pappas, Tsipras’s right-hand
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