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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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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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TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter suffering the blow of seeing its centrepiece legislation on TV licences being shot down... a new ESR board so it can launch a new tender for TV licences that will not be blocked... the government save some face and prove that it is determined to regulate the TV sector. “We’ll see now whether
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
). In an interview with Skai TV on Wednesday, the head of the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM... until the full details of such a settlement are known. A comment by Interior Minister Panos Skourletis.... As a result, the index landed at 88.7, after peaking to 91 in the previous quarter, which
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
and concern that the coalition may even fall apart over this matter. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Wednesday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s position, and his demand for a referendum... Authority (ELSTAT) data showed this week. The absolute figure landed at 29.39 billion euros and largely
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Newsletter 325 - 28/01/2022
survey by Abacus Research for Alpha TV, which showed that 67 pct of respondents were unhappy... for Civil Protection, Transport, Energy, Citizens’ Protection and Interior. It is certain... showed that the primary balance landed at 10.33 billion euros last year, improved from the estimate
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Newsletter 438 - 25/10/2024
. The projections by Alco for Alpha TV found New Democracy gaining 1.3 percentage points to take 25... details of overseas voters from the Interior Ministry and use them for campaign mailshots. The party... landed at just 1.5 pct in 2027 and 1.3 pct in 2028. Every observer of the Greek economy has highlighted
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TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the auction result is that Skai TV, with which the governing parties have had a long-running... Marinakis, a shipowner who is also chairman of Olympiakos football club, to the TV market is likely..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender
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After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the representatives of the four firms that were successful in last week’s TV licence auction... Nikos Pappas, who has overseen the whole process of regulating the TV market. It is clear, however... disposal. The prime minister, however, will want to maximise the political benefit from the TV tender
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After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the wake of the failed TV permit tender that he oversaw. It was reported recently that Pappas travelled... that the government will launch a new effort to regulate the TV sector. In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper... licencing procedure. In a TV interview in Greece on Tuesday night, Pappas welcomed New Democracy proposing
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