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Newsletter 483 - 07/11/2025
% of mail are now delivered directly to homes. Internal and rural discontent Yet the rollout... chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. MPs from rural constituencies were particularly... tensions in rural Greece, where delays in agricultural subsidies and the ongoing sheep pox crisis have
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Newsletter 484 - 14/11/2025
PoliticsMitsotakis bets on energy diplomacy and rural outreachPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... at Alexandroupoli airport. Local media described the scene as emblematic of rural frustration, where anger... for natural disasters. Yet his assurances failed to calm the mood. Rural voters feel increasingly abandoned
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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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Ionian expansion raises questions about Aegean as Athens talks with Tirana
PoliticsForeign Policyin Volos (Amvrakikos) in Central Greece, in Corinth as well as in Messinia, in the Peloponnese. As soon... extending its territorial waters in the Aegean. In fact, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said late... by Mitsotakis in Parliament, Athens notified Italy and Albania about its decision. Foreign Minister Nikos
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Floods force Mitsotakis to postpone policy speech amid political fallout from ferry death
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Volos on Thursday. It is unclear whether SYRIZA’s leadership elections scheduled for Sunday will go ahead. At least one of the candidates, Nikos Pappas, has called for them to be rescheduled. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis accused the government of failing to put in place adequate prevention
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