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Farmers’ fury grows as government scrambles for response
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’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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Newsletter 487 - 05/12/2025
of the anger lies the scandal at OPEKEPE, the farm payments agency. Advance subsidies this year fell sharply
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
developments have left Mitsotakis facing a multifaceted crisis: mounting rural anger, internal dissent
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Government suffers as farmers vow to continue protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsto intensify their protests and reject dialogue with the government for now. Anger over an error
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PM tries to isolate protesting farmers, dismisses talk of reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politicschains disrupted. Speaking to Action24 TV, Mitsotakis acknowledged the anger but argued
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Farmers and government edge towards dialogue after weeks of escalation
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe farmers’ anger at rising production costs and what they see as inadequate government support. The protests
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Farmers’ boycott scuppers PM meeting as Karystianou fleshes out political vision
PoliticsGreek Politicsto attend reflects both tactical calculation and genuine anger. Hardline groups believe that boycotting
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Athens walks tightrope as Trump rattles transatlantic ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyAleksandr Lukashenko, raising further questions about legitimacy. A rejection would anger Trump
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Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026
, Mitsotakis has been grappling with a more combustible problem: the simmering anger of farmers
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Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
PoliticsGreek Politicsand failing to state its objections clearly. Criticism also came from SYRIZA’s former defence minister
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