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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societythe monopoly on print press distribution, and was already at an advanced stage of licensing a new TV channel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase... platform Nova TV, which owns the broadcast rights for most of the Greek football SuperLeague
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Thinking outside of the box
Agoraof accusations about who is genuinely in favour of a free press. The government’s tender for national TV... been held, making Greece the only European Union country not to have auctioned TV permits. Instead... been one of the fundamental reasons for a shocking erosion of trust in Greek TV stations. According
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Brewing dispute with media adds to Tsipras's headaches
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA rare live TV appearance by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday night provided little... appearance on the Star TV show, the premier said he expects the institutions’ heads of mission... in a TV interview on Sunday that the EU cannot “abandon” Greece and leave it to deal with the crisis
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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
The government frames the issuing of permits as the first genuine attempt to regulate the TV broadcasting sector... of accusations about who is genuinely in favour of a free press. The government’s tender for national TV... been held, making Greece the only European Union country not to have auctioned TV permits. Instead
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Kasselakis starts to open up as early polls show little impact on public opinion so far
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis has given his first TV interview since his shock victory in the SYRIZA... about the parties’ abilities. Kasselakis spoke to Star TV on Thursday and started off by criticising... a little more about his political ideas in Thursday’s TV interview, having played his cards close to his
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeaturespermanent public sector staff and 15,000 contractors, at a cost of 600 million euros. These accusations... contractors. Their numbers have swelled from 3,413 in 2012 to 15,601 at the end of 2017. By far the largest
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Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
Societyin early summer. In June 2019 the number of public sector contractors was 103,213 and in June 2020 it had... in the latter part of 2019, however there was no corresponding fall in the number of contractors. New record
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The rise of a "Spanish SYRIZA" transform’s country’s politics
Agorainterventions of its leader, Pablo Iglesias, on several TV talk shows– contrasted with the huge support... of online followers has soared while its presence on TV has exponentially risen to an extreme... in a TV debate. As a result, Iglesias has 100,000 more followers on Twitter than the Spanish prime
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Complications over president a taste of things to come for Tsipras?
PoliticsGreek Politicsreceived are likely to act as deterrents to Lafazanis and his colleagues. A Marc poll for Alpha TV... government has the overwhelming support of voters at the moment. Marc poll for Alpha TV: What's your... ready to accept a compromise. The Marc poll for Alpha TV indicates that 56 percent of Greeks want
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Tsipras gives air of resistance but leaves door ajar for agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsat New Democracy, where Antonis Samaras insists on not stepping down. A GPO poll for Mega TV made... the leftist party by 12.1 percentage points. GPO poll for Mega TV SYRIZA 35.1% New Democracy 23 Potami 6 G...’s situation would have been worse if New Democracy had won January’s election. GPO poll for Mega TV
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