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  1. Mitsotakis seeks to appease farmers as they sow grievances on streets of Athens

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by an outbreak of sheeppox, the government is keen to shore up support among rural voters ahead... to return the dividends of growth to citizens. The government’s rural charm offensive is clearly

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  2. Government pins hopes on payments, OPEKEPE shake-up to stem farmers’ protests
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    system tidied up by the end of the year. Rural discontent is just one source of concern... delayed in an attempt to tackle fraud at the troubled OPEKEPE agency by the end of this week. Rural

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  3. Lost decades for Greek incomes tell different story to recovery narrative
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in cities and 28% in rural areas fall into this category, compared with roughly 10% in EU cities and 6% in rural areas. Housing in Greece is also the most expensive relative to available income. Households

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  4. PM stands firm on festive blockades as farmers demand policies, not policing
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to highlight perceived shortcomings in the government’s economic and rural policy. Farmers have also... Greece’s urban policymakers and its rural communities.

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  5. Lack of perceived alternatives strengthens ND as challenger parties lose shine

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    no evidence to refer two former rural development ministers for further scrutiny. The latest poll... on the part of two former rural development ministers. This is the second parliamentary vote to exonerate

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  6. Opposition pledges to continue pursuing OPEKEPE scandal as new evidence emerges
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in which he claimed to have been pressured repeatedly by former rural affairs minister Lefteris... for the government, the Rural Development Ministry confirmed late last week that a memo sent by another

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  7. OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of an organisation treated as a political patronage mechanism in rural constituencies. The political management... the reporting, with Deputy Rural Development Minister Makarios Lazaridis publicly disputing aspects

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  8. GDP grows by 0.1 pct in Q4, up by 1.4 pct in 2017
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    the quarter. ELSTAT also released a first estimate of the overall GDP figure for 2017, showing that it grew... the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) final budget estimate of 1.6 percent. This was driven largely by a 15.7... in November 2017. For 2018, the MoF revised upwards the growth estimate to 2.5 percent from 2.4 percent

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  9. Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
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    Agora

    ). This is the estimate we use for Greece’s Natural Rate of Unemployment, reflecting reforms that were made during..., which will be growing. We estimate for now an underlying structural interest bill of 4 percent... as the proportion of market-placed debt grows. Finally, we can estimate that Greece needs a structural primary

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  10. IMF revises growth forecasts downwards, emphasising gap with other lenders
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    slightly to 1.8 percent next year. The estimate for this year is a substantial revision from the WEO estimate in October, when the Fund expected Greece to grow by 2.6 percent in 2018. Also, the estimate for 2017 was for 1.8 percent growth, now revised down to 1.4 percent, in line with ELSTAT’s

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