Lefkada MP named deputy agriculture minister
Lefkada MP Athanasios Kavvadas has been appointed deputy agriculture minister following the resignation of Makarios Lazaridis, the government said Monday.
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GREECE 
June 1, 2025 Mitsotakis explains decision to dissolve OPEKEPE amid scandal
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in his weekly social media post, addressed the decision to dissolve OPEKEPE amid the scandal involving the misuse of European Union agricultural subsidies.
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ECONOMY
April 23, 2025 Cohesion and agriculture among key pillars of next EU budget
By Martin Banks MEPs say the next long-term EU budget must be better aligned with the Union’s new priorities of competitiveness and defence.
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EUROPE
May 23, 2024 EU’s strategic dialogue on agriculture halfway through but still far from conclusions
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s initiative to tackle polarisation in the agricultural sector is expected to reach its conclusions by September, but sources close to the talks told Euractiv that stakeholders are still not close to defining concrete agreements.
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EUROPE
March 28, 2024 French minister: Agriculture will be national ‘major general interest’
At the annual congress of the main French farmers’ union, Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau outlined in broad strokes the upcoming law on agriculture and took stock of the current and forthcoming national and EU measures in response to farmers’ protests.
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EUROPE
July 2, 2022 How did the French EU presidency fare on agriculture?
As the French EU Council presidency ended on Thursday (30 June), EURACTIV France takes a look back at how the French dealt with the agriculture file during their six-month stint at the helm of the rotating EU Presidency.
