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Scandal with mismanaged EU funds for Greek farmers, Immigration Minister and three deputy ministers resign!

2025-06-27 15:54:00Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Scandal with mismanaged EU funds for Greek farmers, Immigration Minister and

Greek Immigration Minister Makis Voridis and three deputy ministers resigned on Friday afternoon following the scandal over mismanaged EU funds for Greek farmers, treated as illegal subsidies over the last 6 years.

A few days ago, the European Commission imposed a fine of 415 million euros (which could go up to 600 million) on Greece for failing to manage these EU funds for agriculture and for insufficient control over the allocation of subsidies.

The 3,000-page investigative file that has arrived from the European prosecutor's office to the Greek parliament contains, among other things, interceptions by the Greek National Intelligence Service of telephone conversations between relevant ministers and MPs and other persons, regarding the illegal distribution of European subsidies.

The records reveal a disturbing web of political interference, favoritism and systematic manipulation of EU-funded agricultural payments – with politicians and senior officials allegedly treating state mechanisms as tools for personal and political favors, depriving those farmers who truly needed these subsidies.

At the heart of the revelations is a series of conversations between current and former senior figures in the government. The emerging scandal shows widespread abuse of the subsidy system, which is partly funded by the European Union to support Greek farmers.

The allegations include illegal access to databases, manipulation of applications and quid pro quo (a favor for a favor) agreements between elected officials and agency staff. The tone of the conversations – careless, entitled and deeply cynical – has angered many Greeks and raised alarms in Brussels about the misuse of EU funds.

The scandal is taking on ever larger proportions and other ministers or officials are also being investigated, for making payments without sufficient on-the-ground controls or inspections, for fraud related to non-existent Greek farms, or dozens of cases where Greek citizens have received EU agricultural funds intended to develop pastures they did not own or had not rented, or for agricultural activities in which they were never engaged.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accepted the resignation of Immigration Minister Makis Voridhis, a former Minister of Agriculture, a department that also supervised the agency for managing these funds, OPEKEPE. Makis Voridhis was also considered one of the most extreme figures of the New Democracy party regarding harsh immigration policies.

At the same time, their resignations were submitted and accepted by the Prime Minister, namely Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs Tasos Hadjivassiliou, Rural Development Dionysis Stamenitis and Digital Governance Christos Boukoros, as well as the Secretary General of Rural Development Giorgos Stratakos.


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