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Newsletter 482 - 31/10/2025
familiar: Stalled subsidy payments, rising rural anger, fraying unity inside New Democracy, and a centre... and historic compensation delays has pushed the traditionally conservative-voting rural community... ministers implicated in the probes — former rural development minister Lefteris Avgenakis and Makis
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
over delayed subsidies and the OPEKEPE payments scandal threatens to boil over. Rural Development... no sign of fading, and risks eroding the government’s credibility among rural voters. Labour deal... to recovery narrativeThe final 2026 budget submitted to Parliament last week reaffirmed Greece’s strong
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Current account deficit widens to 404 mln in March
EconomyMacroeconomyby 8.1 percent with receipts up 13.3 percent, entirely reflecting a strong growth (+34.3 percent) in non... a sharp drop in the primary income surplus (by 859 million) followed by a narrowing of the services
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Lenders wait for prior actions to be completed, Athens expects 4.5-bln tranche
EconomyProgrammespeculation. The Greek Finance Ministry took the unusual step on Thursday of responding to reports...Members of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) are due to meet again next week, after Greece has completed its prior actions, to finalise their recommendation to eurozone finance ministers. The EWG met
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Confusion over Tempe findings allows government to claim victory over "disinformation campaign"
PoliticsGreek Politics, Course for Freedom, Niki and Spartiates voted against the recommendation. The recommendation is expected to be adopted by Parliament, where ND still holds a strong majority. PASOK’s representatives... of the accident site wrapped up its proceedings on Tuesday. The committee adopted the recommendation
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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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In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
PoliticsGreek Politicsis an atheist, meeting monks was indeed unusual. It was the first such visit by a leftist leader since... and that it has to seize every opportunity if it is going to make headway in rural areas.
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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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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... increasingly prone to missteps in its attempts to respond to crises. Given New Democracy’s strong lead
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