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Greece's immediate focus on prior actions and growth plan
EconomyProgrammeagreement (SLA) to be secured in May. To Vima reported over the weekend that only 15 of the 88 key... the institutions return to Athens to start preparing for an SLA. There has been some movement
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Mission chiefs take up negotiations in Athens but focus on IMF's decision
EconomyProgrammeof a staff-level agreement (SLA) being reached ahead of the May 24 Eurogroup. Reports in the Greek media suggest that the text for the SLA is already being drafted. Greek Finance Ministry officials
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Coalition picks out positives from lenders' deal, clashes over political violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsreached a staff-level agreement (SLA) with the lenders on Saturday, signs of convergence between..., in the expectation that SYRIZA will profit from this, will pay off for the leftists. Apart from the SLA
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Newsletter 163 -25/05/2018
Fourth review heads for finish line SLA clinched, leaving prior actions to settle but little progress on debt relief Greece and its lenders secured a staff-level agreement (SLA) on the fourth review on Saturday but subsequently did not manage to make a breakthrough on debt relief, although all
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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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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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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsserved at the Rural Development Ministry during the 2019-2024 period investigated by the European... OPEKEPE officials allegedly colluded with representatives of the Rural Development Ministry... of the responsibility for the matter, 87 pct say that rural development ministers should be held
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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
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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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