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Fresh inquiry looms as file on farming subsidy investigation reaches Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the file against a total 15 members of Parliament named in the prosecutor’s file, 13 of whom belong... 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
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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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Outsider Kasselakis on track to lead SYRIZA after securing key backers
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAchtsioglou who only managed 36.18 percent in the final count. A total 148,821 party members cast.... Libya debacle The government, meanwhile, is facing criticism over its handling of the deaths of five members of a Greek humanitarian rescue mission in Libya under unclear circumstances. The victims
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ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
Societyeuros) and restaurants (-14.82 euros), which both correspond to one third of the total expenditure... 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
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New Democracy suffers ratings blow as farming payments scandal unfolds
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis personally, while just 9.2 pct believe the fault lies with the Rural Development... in response to increased flows on the cross-Mediterranean route from Libya. There are indications
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Athens takes plunge on gas exploration, sees hope in Israel-Lebanon deal
PoliticsForeign Policyand the island of Crete. "We want to make an opening with Libya as a whole, so that we can finally... located in the area between Greece and Libya," Mitsotakis said in an interview with ANT-1 TV, last Monday. It appears that Athens has decided to begin surveys in response to the recent Turkish-Libya
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Farmers dig in as clashes and political tension escalate
PoliticsGreek Politics, exposing the fragility of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s rural compact and fuelling opposition... to 363 million euros, down from 476 million last year. The Ministry of Rural Development and Food.... The administration points to the headline figure of 3.7 billion euros in total payments this year
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Newsletter 451 - 14/02/2025
exports have had a difficult time in recent years, as total exports continued to decline, falling by 2.2 pct in 2024, after falling by 8.5 pct in 2023. Greece's total exports fell below 50 billion... products is excluded, as exports grew by 2.4 pct in 2024. Looking at total exports, trade with EU
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Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020
with Ankara, which escalated following Turkey’s decision to sign a maritime agreement with Libya... actions in Libya, as well as the two memoranda signed between Ankara and Tripoli. However, Turkey’s... fall of 829 million euros, bringing the total figure to 1.10 billion euros. The equivalent figure
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Report reveals just 0.4 pct of taxpayers owe 85 pct of total tax debt
EconomyMacroeconomy. The breakdown showed 2 percent of the total tax debt (1.82 billion) is owed by 83.8 percent... million taxpayers (55.4 percent of total) owe less than 500 euros each. In contrast, just 16,290 taxpayers (0.4 percent of total) owe more than 300,000 euros each for a total amount of 78.79 billion
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