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Newsletter 483 - 07/11/2025
). What began as a cost-cutting measure has spiralled into a crisis that now threatens the cohesion...% of mail are now delivered directly to homes. Internal and rural discontent Yet the rollout... chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. MPs from rural constituencies were particularly
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Fresh inquiry looms as file on farming subsidy investigation reaches Parliament
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy has a new battle on its hands, as Parliament prepares to review the criminal... a few weeks ago. The complete file was put at the disposal of lawmakers late on Wednesday. What has emerged so far from the 3,000-page file confirms earlier reports that two former rural development
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Newsletter 484 - 14/11/2025
PoliticsMitsotakis bets on energy diplomacy and rural outreachPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.... His government has been battered by inflation, scandals, and declining public support... scandal, which has paralysed subsidy payments and exposed systemic flaws in agricultural support
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Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers
PoliticsGreek Politicsof farmers who have turned against the government in rural constituencies. Feeling the heat from among its... a resolution over the coming days. In a marathon meeting on Wednesday, MPs from rural districts vented their frustration to Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras and the officials tasked
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Farmers anger resonates with public as government struggles to resolve dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicschallenging to resolve, a new opinion poll has indicated that there is deep public sympathy for farmers... solutions to support rural communities. While the MPs did not break with the party line... to deliver tangible relief to rural Greece but also to maintain cohesion within his party. What began
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New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed
PoliticsGreek Politicsattempted to snatch a policeman's firearm and had been involved in a recent attack on the Health Ministry... in such confrontations. Opinion polls since the 2019 elections tend to show that the government has strong backing... with Koufodinas regarding his transfer. This may explain why the prime minister has personally steered clear
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Police and protests at centre of political leaders' debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsbid to ease tension, Mitsotakis also condemned the policeman who beat a bystander during social... behaviour. He called on the prime minister to disband the motorcycle-riding DIAS squad, which has been... among New Democracy supporters, the percentage of those who believe the media has helped reached
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoraon a report which the author has written for the EBRD in London. The full report is available... and Infrastructure Footprint China’s economic cooperation with Serbia has expanded significantly... since it has trade agreements with the EU, Turkey and Russia. It also enjoys a level of political
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorahas threatened to destroy the euro, pull apart the European Union and cause global financial havoc... of the implications this has for Europe as a whole. The reason I want to concentrate mostly on Greece... somebody doesn’t want printed; everything else is advertising.” I can tell you this crisis has been
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has suffered another serious blow to his image and his... Hatsivassileiou, Deputy Rural Development Minister Dionyssis Stamenitis and Deputy Digital Governance Minister Christos Boukoros, as well as the Rural Development Ministry’s general secretary, Giorgos
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