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Opposition striving to ensure surveillance scandal remains live issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s opposition parties are refusing to let go of the surveillance issue despite the Supreme Court recently announcing that its investigation into the scandal found no evidence of state agencies... to the ruling on the spyware scandal, the opposition has also zoomed in on Health Minister Adonis
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Opposition amps up criticism over Gaza stance and farming payments scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsscandal More pressure is being heaped on the government, meanwhile, over the raids conducted... investigation. The leftists claim the scandal demonstrates that New Democracy has been fostering corruption
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ND tries to contain farm payments scandal as leftists disagree over Tempe inquiry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is trying to take steps to contain the scandal involving alleged fraud over payments to farmers, which gained attention last week when the headquarters of the Greek Payment and Control... not giving the scandal much attention. Left divided SYRIZA and New Left appear to have failed
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PASOK pushes for answers over farm subsidy scandal as ND maintains poll lead
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe scandal involving allegedly fraudulent farming subsidies does not appear to be an issue that the government will be able to easily sweep under the carpet. It is also coming under scrutiny.... Androulakis added that the latest scandal is another example of the current government’s
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Government hopeful of weathering subsidy scandal despite public’s finger of blame
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlmost all Greek voters believe that the government has political responsibility for the OPEKEPE scandal, according to a new opinion poll that will compound New Democracy’s concerns about... for the scandal. Such a high proportion appears to indicate that the efforts by Prime Minister Kyriakos
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ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe prospect of further delays in agricultural support payments has New Democracy lawmakers rattled, as mounting discontent over the OPEKEPE scandal and the government’s handling of rural affairs... system in response to the OPEKEPE scandal. The government’s decision to shift responsibility
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Scandal allegations playing growing role in path towards elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding an alleged scandal at state-owned gas transmission operator DEPA and unpaid bills totalling...As Greece moves towards the general elections that will take place next year the claims and counter-claims, from SYRIZA and New Democracy in particular, regarding scandals look set to intensify
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Podcast - Subsidise this: Fraud scandal delivers new blow to Greek PM
AgoraAnyone hoping for a calm summer in Greece just had their hopes dashed. A political storm is engulfing Athens, with four government officials already ousted amid a deepening scandal tied to the misuse of EU agricultural funds. At the heart of the storm is OPEKEPE—the Payment and Control Agency
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Rival opposition motions give government breathing space over farm payments scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe dispute over the handling of revelations of massive fraud in the distribution of agricultural subsidies rumbles on, as opposition parties have tabled two separate motions aimed at bringing criminal charges against two former New Democracy ministers. The investigation of the scandal exposed
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PASOK battles for political space as Tsipras edges closer to launch
PoliticsGreek Politicson cooperation with New Democracy, linking his stance to the surveillance scandal and declaring... its congress would reset the political narrative, New Democracy moved quickly to frame it otherwise... “crime and cover‑up”, citing: the surveillance scandal, which he called the gravest in modern Greek
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