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Last-minute labour amendment, university asylum law fuel political row as third bill passes
PoliticsGreek Politicsloopholes in the provision, there is considerable danger that it will not be implemented,” said Kerameos... abide by labour regulations. The sub-contractor is responsible for ensuring workers’ rights...-contractors they use and employees having the right to take legal action against employers even
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Uncomfortable questions regarding TV auction mount for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the recent auction for TV licences, which the coalition has held up as a shining example... against the tender by the existing TV channels, most of whom failed to win permits in the recent... to rubber stamp the tender. A second controversial aspect to the TV permits auction has emerged this week
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The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction
AgoraAt the start of the process to auction four TV licenses in Athens last week, one of the people... of usual suspects did not seem to herald a new era for TV in Greece. Beyond that, the start of the auction... broadcasting had been an open wound since the first private TV stations went on air in the late 1980s
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PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
PoliticsGreek Politicswhen he claimed on TV that the Turkish vessel Oruc Reis had been able to carry out hydrocarbon
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Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
PoliticsGreek Politicsa preliminary inquiry into Pappas’s behaviour in connection to the 2016 tender for TV permits. Pappas had
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Newsletter 41 - 04/09/2015
on minor TV stations, appears to be gathering enough support to pass the 3 percent threshold... but has managed to hang in there. Under the new leadership of Fofi Gennimata, it is casting itself... and New Democracy. However, if the winning party’s margin of victory over the one in second place
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
decline. 2 Cyprus decouples from Greece Minimising danger of contagion must now be a scenario... and reform priorities. In short, while Nicosia is in the process of winding down its affairs..., deposit flow dynamics and nonperforming loan formation. Minimising any danger of contagion must now
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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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