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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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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsof State deemed that the recent tender leading to four bidders gaining TV licences and existing channels... the government could survive given that it had elevated the importance of the TV permits tender... and that efforts would continue to regulate the TV sector. When the decision was announced on Wednesday
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New Democracy seeks higher ground in escalating TV permits row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA new chapter in the ongoing saga relating to Greece’s TV licences is due to be written this week... leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis followed this up by holding a meeting with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos... with Pavlopoulos that holding general elections “as soon as possible” is the only way for the country
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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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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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Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
PoliticsGreek Politicsserved as heads of the Rural Development Ministry which oversaw OPEKEPE. Over the past few days, it has... affect payments to farmers, a constituency which New Democracy is keen to hang on to. Ministers have
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsof an organisation treated as a political patronage mechanism in rural constituencies. The political management... the reporting, with Deputy Rural Development Minister Makarios Lazaridis publicly disputing aspects... a broader IT activity unrelated to spyware, but this sits uneasily alongside the court’s recent
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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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