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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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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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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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Ministerial resignation adds to pressure on PM as Tsipras prepares for return to arena
PoliticsGreek Politicsinternal anger before Wednesday’s crucial vote on the immunity of ND MPs named in the OPEKEPE case
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Karystianou’s party makes political debut as confrontation over scandals continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMaria Karystianou’s new political movement was launched in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening in what was far more than a conventional party unveiling. It marked the transformation of a social trauma into a political project, and the shift from collective grief and anger over the Tempe rail disaster
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Polls prompt ND to crunch coalition numbers as Tsipras turns attention to policy
PoliticsGreek Politicscivic anger and the disenchanted nationalist right. Seven in ten respondents (69.1 pct) want
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Parties shift into early campaign mode as ND mobilises and ELAS builds machine
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThessaly, where anger remains high over the OPEKEPE payments scandal and the winter’s farmers
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