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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agorafootball,” says UEFA in the latest version of its annual benchmarking report. In Greece, attendance figures... rings hollow after the centre-right administration recently surrendered an opportunity to impose order... the law to ensure that the club from Greece’s rural heartland would not be docked points
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Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFarmers are the latest group to voice their opposition to the government’s policies as the reaction... smaller, rural constituencies possibly feeling pressured by their local communities to oppose..., with bigger reductions to large pensions, in order to be in any position to convince its MPs to support
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ND courts voters with hardline migration bill as pressure grows over farming subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsto bar entry to third country citizens they consider to be a threat to public order and national... that Mitsotakis had overseen five rural affairs ministers and six heads of OPEKEPE during his terms in office... the current political crisis is limited to the period of ND’s latest term in government.
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Rival opposition motions give government breathing space over farm payments scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor a preliminary parliamentary inquiry into possible charges against former rural development ministers Makis... has a realistic chance of securing an absolute majority in order to proceed; however, opposition... Democracy, most notably over Tempe, but have failed to present a united front. The latest initiatives show
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHatsivassileiou, Deputy Rural Development Minister Dionyssis Stamenitis and Deputy Digital Governance Minister Christos Boukoros, as well as the Rural Development Ministry’s general secretary, Giorgos... that the former head of OPEKEPE, Grigoris Varras, twice informed Voridis when he was the rural
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Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe depth of rural anger and placed fresh pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s administration..., while opposition parties are eager to amplify rural grievances. For now, the farmers’ mobilisation... order, implicitly contrasting his party’s stance with what he described as government complacency
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Collateral damage in Europe?
Agorain order to create negotiating leverage is not shared by transatlantic partners in European capital... on product categories ranging from aluminium to steel, electronics, aerospace and machinery products. China
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Greece braces for potential impact of coronavirus on key economic sectors
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Greece is already in the order of 60-70 percent, and is expected to rise. Expectations for the 2020... include mostly electronic products, aluminium, mobile phones and toys worth 3.4 billion euros
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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsserved at the Rural Development Ministry during the 2019-2024 period investigated by the European... OPEKEPE officials allegedly colluded with representatives of the Rural Development Ministry... by some as the latest in a growing line of incidents suggesting that Athens does not carry the necessary
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ELTA CEO resignation fails to stem political fallout from post office closures
PoliticsGreek Politicsvoters have been complaining about rural abandonment. Rural voters say that this is the latest... sensitive time. Deputies from rural constituencies have been at the sharp end of complaints from voters over.... This was the latest in a series of similar engagements at which Guilfoyle has been courted privately
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