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Former minister’s trial set to revive Tempe in time for elections A former deputy minister will stand trial before the Special Court over the clearance of the Tempe rail crash site. The ruling puts the government back on the defensive over the country's most emotive scandal just as the pre-election season gathers pace.
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ND polishes TIF package as Samaras reopens "woke agenda" line With four days left before Kyriakos Mitsotakis opens this year's Thessaloniki International Fair, the shape of the government's economic package is coming into sharper focus, even as the prime minister works to contain a fresh outbreak of hostilities on his right flank from Antonis Samaras.
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Opposition accuses govt of institutional evasion and strategic missteps over wiretapping and Patriots The government faced a twin barrage of criticism over the weekend, as opposition parties condemned both the Supreme Court prosecutor’s refusal to reopen the wiretapping case and the handling of Greece’s Patriot missile deployment in Saudi Arabia.
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Tanker diplomacy gets Athens into hot waters over Russia sanctions Athens's case for protecting its shipowners' commercial interests has come under unusually direct public criticism from other member states, as EU diplomats conclude negotiations on the 21st Russia sanctions package.
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Government counter‑offensive on OPEKEPE as Tsipras–SYRIZA schism deepens The government has launched a forceful counter‑offensive following the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’s (EPPO) decision to prosecute four New Democracy MPs for misdemeanour‑level offences linked to agricultural subsidies.
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New EPPO indictments threaten further disruption to ND as SYRIZA continues to shrink The European Public Prosecutor’s investigation into the OPEKEPE scandal took another turn on Wednesday with the announcement of indictments against four government lawmakers and several former senior officials for crimes connected with fraud at the farm payments agency.
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Government leans on 'law and order' after arson arrests, but Predator scandal still festers The government has seized on a series of high profile arrests to reinforce its “law and order” message, hoping to restore trust among right‑leaning voters shaken by recent political turbulence.
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Samaras escalates row with PM as ELAS tries to build credibility Over recent weeks, pressure on Maximos has begun to converge from multiple directions: Antonis Samaras has escalated his personal confrontation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Predator surveillance scandal and Alexis Tsipras’s new party, the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), is simultaneously attacking the government’s economic narrative and grappling with the challenge of presenting a credible, fully costed alternative.
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Scandals, shifting polls and strategic anxiety make for unsettled political summer Two scandals from the recent past have returned to unsettle New Democracy just as a new opinion poll shows the governing party regaining ground, and as PASOK grapples with an increasingly fraught debate over its post‑election alliances.
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EPPO raises stakes over judicial independence question as new political entrants build cases The confrontation between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the government over the OPEKEPE farm subsidy scandal and the Floridis amendment has escalated into a test case for judicial independence, EU conditionality and the limits of executive control over institutions.