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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
deputies are to oppose Dimas’s candidacy, then this leaves the government needing all of the rest plus... that cumulative collections stand at just 277 million so far. Those banks (six commercial and six
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Newsletter 151 -16/02/2018
to the Aegean as Athens eyes Ankara against the backdrop of internal political conflicts. comments... to winter sales. Apartment prices fall by 0.3 pct in Q4 2017 Average price drop for the year comes to 1... to the previous quarter, apartment prices rose by 0.5 percent compared to a contraction of 0.1 percent in Q3 2017
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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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Ministerial resignation adds to pressure on PM as Tsipras prepares for return to arena
PoliticsGreek Politicsinsiders, frustration within the parliamentary group was growing. It was against this backdrop... dragged by a “left‑wing gang”. The post also included a sexist remark directed at Bakoyannis
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Newsletter 505 - 22/05/2026
of this is unfolding against the backdrop of rising tensions with Turkey and a shifting European... founding principles. His pointed remark that “ND’s DNA does not believe in closed technocratic
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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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