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  1. Public investment under spotlight amid arguments over budget execution
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    funds 166 million and 859 billion by other legal entities, to make up the actual spend of 4.97

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  2. Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020

    Newsletters

    was 2.82 billion, municipalities spent 1.12 billion, social funds 166 million and 859 billion

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  3. Fresh inquiry looms as file on farming subsidy investigation reaches Parliament
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    emerged so far from the 3,000-page file confirms earlier reports that two former rural development... payments scandal over the coming months. The Rural Development Ministry is already bracing for a backlash..., this concerns 2.9 million euros handed out for fraudulently declared livestock. Rural Development Minister

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  4. Farmers anger resonates with public as government struggles to resolve dispute

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    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..., internal critics and rural communities are all vying to shape the narrative. Opinion poll Against

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  5. Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of 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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  6. Reshuffle on horizon as second OPEKEPE dossier rattles government

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of 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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  7. Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
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    Agora

    ) labor force. Employment can grow faster for a while than is the demographic drag from a falling WAP... growth, employment, and fiscal numbers, again. The underlying structural or fundamental drag

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  8. Watchdog's ruling in voter email leak prompts opposition calls for minister to resign

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on the Interior Ministry in connection to the leaked emails. They were found to have breached data... the time of the national elections. Someone from the Interior Ministry, who has not been identified... for the European Parliament elections next month. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus has stressed

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  9. ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
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    Society

    in the rural than the urban areas. The average monthly expenditure in the urban areas fell 7.1 percent in 2013 and 28.6 percent since 2009. In contrast, the figures for the rural areas posted almost the half... is consistently above that in rural areas, yet the deviation significantly narrowed over the past

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  10. Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the alleged involvement of two former rural development ministers, reported to be New Democracy’s.... “There was a central mechanism at OPEKEPE and at the (rural development) ministry directing them,” the opposition... that this penalty was for administrative failures is not convincing and called for the current Rural

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