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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek Politicshis administration in recent weeks. Mitsotakis gave a lengthy interview to Skai TV on Wednesday, much... with Libya, Mitsotakis reiterated his government’s position that the Turkey-Libya maritime agreement... the rival factions in Libya, allowing Libya to press territorial claims with backing from Ankara
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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 428 - 21/06/2024
Democracy’s incumbent Kostas Bakoyannis in a surprise result. In a TV interview on Monday night... of the party’s central committee which is scheduled for June 30. In another TV studio, Kasselakis..., as well as in local government and at union level. He told ANT-1 TV that cooperation would have
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Newsletter 188 -21/12/2018
on Monday at the headquarters of Kathimerini and Skai TV and radio, the attack was the most serious... of the current government, which has boycotted Skai’s TV programmes over the last few months... from the vote and bringing down the threshold so that Tsipras will need just the majority of those
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Italian support over Libya buoys Athens as it looks to build broad East Med alliance
PoliticsForeign PolicyJurisdictions Memorandum that Turkey signed last November with the UN-backed government in Libya... signed by Libya and Turkey on the delimitation of the continental shelf is unacceptable, infringes... on the issue of Libya. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas confirmed on Tuesday press reports that Greece
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TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger
PoliticsGreek Politicswill have to shut down in 90 days, according to the rules of the process. One of the most notable aspects 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
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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... the Venezuela trip was published a few days later, prompting Pappas to play down its importance. He said... that the government will launch a new effort to regulate the TV sector. In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper
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Tsipras encounters SYRIZA resistance, waits for court verdict on TV licences
PoliticsGreek Politics-making process. Until now, Pappas had been virtually untouchable but the controversy over the TV... this week on Wednesday to assess whether the tender for TV permits was in line with the country’s..., prompting calls for either the coalition to step down or Pappas to quit his post. “Maybe some people
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