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  1. Farmers’ fury grows as government scrambles for response
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    Greece’s farmers are intensifying their mobilisation, choking highways and border crossings with tractors as anger over subsidies and systemic dysfunction boils over, prompting the government to search for ways to quell the protests. What began as scattered blockades has now evolved

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  2. Newsletter 487 - 05/12/2025

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    of the anger lies the scandal at OPEKEPE, the farm payments agency. Advance subsidies this year fell sharply

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  3. Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025

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    developments have left Mitsotakis facing a multifaceted crisis: mounting rural anger, internal dissent

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  4. Government suffers as farmers vow to continue protests
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    to intensify their protests and reject dialogue with the government for now. Anger over an error

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  5. PM tries to isolate protesting farmers, dismisses talk of reshuffle
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    chains disrupted. Speaking to Action24 TV, Mitsotakis acknowledged the anger but argued

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  6. Farmers and government edge towards dialogue after weeks of escalation

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    the farmers’ anger at rising production costs and what they see as inadequate government support. The protests

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  7. Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
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    and failing to state its objections clearly. Criticism also came from SYRIZA’s former defence minister

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  8. Rule of law and media freedom in spotlight after arson attack and European Commission report
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    risked failing the bailout review by the country’s creditors because of the IMF’s insistence... published in UK daily The Guardian about the global lobbying activities of ride-hailing platform Uber... criticised SYRIZA’s attempts while in government to ban Uber and other ride-hailing platforms, accusing

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  9. Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice

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    Former Defence Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was jailed for 20 years on Monday after being found guilty of money laundering. Although the ex-PASOK veteran will serve only a fraction of this sentence, his conviction is notable moment in Greek politics as...

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  10. Episode 9 - Greek economy toiling under pandemic pressure

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    In this episode, we have returned to one of the first topics we covered so can examine how the Greek economy is coping with Covid-19. Our producer, Phoebe Fronista, has been speaking to Constantinos Kouvaras, the area director in Greece for the Bacardi ...

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