Overview

• Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed Thanos Plevris as migration minister and named successors for four other posts on June 28 after officials quit over suspected fraud in EU farm payments.
• The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has forwarded a 3,000-page dossier to parliament alleging a criminal network of state agency officials and MPs diverted agricultural subsidies.
• Brussels penalized Greece earlier this month with a €392.2 million fine and a 5 percent cut to its future farm subsidies for mismanagement by the OPEKEPE payments agency.
• Athens will merge the agricultural payments agency OPEKEPE with the Independent Authority for Public Revenues by next year to bolster scrutiny of its €2.4 billion annual subsidy program.
• Greek law requires a parliamentary vote to lift MPs’ immunity before prosecutors can pursue charges against current or former ministers implicated in the probe.