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  1. First step in TV licensing process completed as controversy continues

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    The 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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  2. TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict

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    After 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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  3. Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
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    served 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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  4. Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
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    contents suggests that Samaras showed little interest in moulding this into a binding document

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  5. TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger

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    of 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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  6. After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
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    with 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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  7. After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
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    in 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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  8. Fresh inquiry looms as file on farming subsidy investigation reaches Parliament
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    emerged so far from the 3,000-page file confirms earlier reports that two former rural development... with Open TV, in which he stated that “nothing happened at the agency now that wasn’t happening... in an interview with Skai TV on Thursday morning, claiming that the only evidence relating to him

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  9. Government meets resistance on TV permits and revenues chief
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    an extension for the payment of a TV advertisment levy and the other for the review of a fine... abstained. Greece's digital network operator, Digea, which was formed by private TV stations, has also

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  10. SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog

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    . The dispute over the TV licenses has been brewing for some time as the opposition suspects SYRIZA is trying to favour friendly media groups. The coalition counters that previous governments have allowed TV

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