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PM burnishes conservative credentials with focus on day-to-day issues, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicssuch as the cost of living, healthcare and law and order. He credited ND’s initiatives at EU level for creating... in March. Law and order On the campaign trail in Evros, Mitsotakis also issued a warning against... to impose law and order in public universities. On Tuesday, police arrested 28 protesters at Athens Law
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Coalition opens up new political front with tender for TV licenses
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government to launch, and oversee, a tender for four national TV licenses. The legislation has been... owners of TV licenses. The opposition has accused the government of adopting an unconstitutional approach by passing responsibility for the issuing of TV licenses to State Minister Nikos Pappas
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Final list of bidders confirmed ahead of contentious auction for TV permits
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe final list of companies that will be competing for the four national TV licenses on the digital... of taxes and social security. The other seven bidders are existing TV stations Ant-1, Alpha, Star, Skai, E TV and two newcomers: One backed by construction firm owner Yiannis Kalogritsas and the other
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New episode in Greek TV drama
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe suspense continues. A high court will hear a case against the government over its TV licensing... the news media. The Council of State’s 16-9 decision on Tuesday to take the complaints of private TV... complicated: A bid winner dropped out and was replaced, and TV companies strafed the government and each
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New Democracy latches on to SYRIZA confusion over law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis week, providing New Democracy with ammunition for its attacks on the coalition on the “law and order.... Sensing SYRIZA’s unease, New Democracy has sought to present itself as the party of law and order.... Apart from trying to convince the public that the government is doing a poor job on law and order
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ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage
PoliticsGreek Politicsfocus back on law and order in a bid to win back disaffected conservative voters. Rural Development... that up to half of all upcoming payments audited in spot checks appeared to be out of order. Under... and order Wrong-footed by the ongoing battering it is receiving over OPEKEPE and Tempe, the government
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Spate of crimes tarnish ND's law and order image, force changes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere is concern within the government that it is falling short of expectations in terms of the law and order agenda, and one its priorities in 2024 will be to make interventions that reduce... in New Democracy’s ability to tackle criminal behaviour and ensure public safety. Law and order has
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Coalition to focus on constitutional reform after electoral law, as TV tender progresses
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the upcoming bailout review. TV licenses Another issue that serves as a useful distraction for the government is the tender process for the four national TV broadcasting licenses, which entered its... and Mega TV were rejected, while the former leader of ultra-nationalist LAOS and owner of Art TV channel
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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTV licence tender had fallen apart in “legal, political and moral” terms, with the conservatives... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt... as having close ties with some SYRIZA ministers, was one of the four successful bidders in the TV auction
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First step in TV licensing process completed as controversy continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has received 11 expressions of interest in the new TV broadcasting licenses it plans... in a previously murky field. Since private TV emerged in Greece in the late 1980s, there has been... is the main argument used by TV channels that currently have licenses in their attempt to invalidate
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