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Newsletter 482 - 31/10/2025
familiar: Stalled subsidy payments, rising rural anger, fraying unity inside New Democracy, and a centre... and historic compensation delays has pushed the traditionally conservative-voting rural community... ministers implicated in the probes — former rural development minister Lefteris Avgenakis and Makis
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Newsletter 483 - 07/11/2025
% 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... tensions in rural Greece, where delays in agricultural subsidies and the ongoing sheep pox crisis have
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Newsletter 484 - 14/11/2025
PoliticsMitsotakis bets on energy diplomacy and rural outreachPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... at Alexandroupoli airport. Local media described the scene as emblematic of rural frustration, where anger... for natural disasters. Yet his assurances failed to calm the mood. Rural voters feel increasingly abandoned
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
over delayed subsidies and the OPEKEPE payments scandal threatens to boil over. Rural Development... no sign of fading, and risks eroding the government’s credibility among rural voters. Labour deal...% of households in cities and 28% in rural areas fall into this category, compared with roughly 10% in EU cities
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Farmers anger resonates with public as government struggles to resolve dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicssolutions 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..., internal critics and rural communities are all vying to shape the narrative. Opinion poll Against
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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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Reshuffle on horizon as second OPEKEPE dossier rattles government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof one former rural affairs minister and three deputy ministers, but the two resulting parliamentary... another former rural development minister and his deputy, relating to the same period. The scandal... to manage the political fallout. The list includes two current cabinet members, Rural Affairs Minister
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As Athens awaits news from Brussels, New Democracy mends fences
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy hailing its innocence and Karamanlis – in an extremely rare public intervention – arguing
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Tsipras fends off election rumours, Mitsotakis talks up moderate qualities
PoliticsGreek Politics. This was followed by the news that ride-hailing service Uber is suspending its operation in Greece due
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Mitsotakis returns from Berlin with warm words but no encouragement on fiscal front
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s visit to Berlin was greeted by conflicting reviews back home, with the government hailing it as a meeting of minds, while the opposition criticised the lack of concrete outcomes. The first official visit of the post-MoU era was never destined to have the drama
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