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New Democracy losing grip on regions as farmers’ protests highlight rural frustration

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:09:00 GMT

numbers of voters in rural areas. Footage of the visit show the PM’s convoy being diverted along farm... in rural areas, where anger is boiling over of the misappropriation of farm subsidies, combined... the mood, which has grown increasingly restive as rural voters complained of being condemned

Dead fish in Volos cause big political stink

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:08:00 GMT

More than 100 tons of dead fish that washed up off the port city of Volos in central Greece... of visitors leaving Volos in their droves because of the stench. It appears that the fish were washed..., a prosecutor has launched an investigation into the affair. Volos Mayor Achilleas Beos has blamed

ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:15:00 GMT

, as mounting discontent over the OPEKEPE scandal and the government’s handling of rural affairs... focus back on law and order in a bid to win back disaffected conservative voters. Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras is set to meet New Democracy deputies from rural constituencies today

Reactions to reshuffle continue as government seeks fast track prosecution of former minister

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:00:00 GMT

. On Monday, Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos came under fire from opposition parties over... to show understanding for some of Turkey’s claims in the Aegean make Tsafos unsuitable to hold such a sensitive post. Tsafos, who had previously served as Mitsotakis’s advisor on energy, was forced

Mitsotakis dismisses poll speculation, promises swift housing relief and rural support

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:38:00 GMT

rural unrest and the government’s handling of agricultural subsidies. Mitsotakis reiterated his

Farmers anger resonates with public as government struggles to resolve dispute

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:55:00 GMT

of the protests. Farmers from central Greece were due to stage a protest at the port of Volos... 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

Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:44:00 GMT

is: when was the right moment for Greece to raise this issue?” Athens-based German historian Hagen... Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos’s threat on Wednesday to implement a 2000 Supreme Court decision

Mentioning the war so we don't have to mention the war

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:38:00 GMT

moment for Greece to raise this issue?” German historian Hagen Fleischer, one of the leading.... Attempts to merge the two are doomed to becoming too toxic. This was underlined by Justice Minister Nikos

PM wades in on Turkey dispute as Covid-19 threat grows at home

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:03:00 GMT

a second wave. Epidemiologist Nikos Sypsas, a member of the scientific committee advising

PM calls for step-up in jabs, tougher enforcement in response to rising infections

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:06:00 GMT

. Professor Nikos Sypsas also appeared to chide the PM, warning that “the virus has its own agenda