Stuck in the old system of filing for the receipt of basic subsidies have been the farmers for the last two years, despite the fact that they could submit them through Gov.gr.

Specifically, as he revealed in Nikos Filipidis Central Newsletter By 2022 farmers could submit their applications online. Then was the Minister of Rural Development, the George Georgandas who came from the Ministry of Digital Politics. In fact, Mr Georgantas had then announced that 638,130 had been submitted through Gov.

However, from the next year, farmers have returned to the traditional way of filing benefits, that is, through the statements centers (CYD), that is, private offices, companies that help farmers. It was then that there was a sense that through Gov the process was more complicated and difficult. So, The majority of farmers continued in both 2023 and 2024 to submit applications for its basic subsidy through the CYD.

Rage in European officials

According to SKAI’s report in Brussels, they do not see anything in Greece in recent days on the OPECEPE case. It was even difficult for the climate that the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture had pledged to provide solutions to the matter while the culmination was when the penultimate president of OPEKEPE reached the point of suing the European prosecutor.

Kostis Hatzidakis’ intervention was then considered imperative with himself going to Brussels on Thursday night to meet with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Food, Mr. Christof Hansen in order to assure him that things would go well.