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1. Lesvos: Serious shortages in basic goods due to livestock farmers’ protests

   Serious shortages in basic goods such as vegetables, fruits and chicken have been recorded in the supermarkets of the island of Lesvos as livestock farmers continue to block the port for sixth consecutive day. The protesters prevent trucks arriving on ferries and commercial cargo vessels from disembarking at the two ports of Mytilene. The trucks […]

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2. Minister Lazaridis forced to resign, stages counter-attack

   After ten days of pressure by opposition parties, newly appointed Deputy Rural Development & Food Minister Makarios Lazaridis submitted his resignation on Saturday. An hour earlier, the Prime Minister’s sister and New Democracy MP, Dora Bakoyianni, had urged Lazaridis during a Live interview on a TV channel  “to resign in order to make it easy […]

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3. Deputy Minister offers to return 2-year salaries but he won’t resign

   Greece’s Deputy Minister of Rural Development, Makarios Lazaridis, said on Thursday that he will pay back the official payments he received when he was hired as “scientific advisor” to the Education Ministry without having a university degree, required for this position. On the contrary, he presented a “degree” from a college that was never licensed […]

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4. Mass protest on Lesvos by desperate livestock breeders as FMD outbreak destroyed local economy

   One of the biggest protests on the island of Lesvos in recent years took place on on Thursday. Thousands of people, professionals and simple citizens, took to the streets demanding immediate solutions to the suffocating effects of the measures against the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on the local economy. The protests rally was organized by livestock […]

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5. Three men arrested for the death of 19-year-old woman in Kefalonia (video)

   A 19-year-old woman was found on a square of Argostoli by ambulance rescuers early morning on Tuesday. The young woman had a very weak to non-existent pulse. They rushed her to the hospital of Kefalonia, less than one kilometer away, where she died short time later, despite the doctors’ efforts. The Ambulance service had received […]

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