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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
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Reshuffle expectations doused as coalition braces for TV permits ruling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s governing coalition is on tenterhooks over the imminent verdict on the TV licences tender from the Council of State, which is holding its second session of the week on Wednesday. Should... administration will simply continue its efforts to regulate the TV broadcasting sector if the tender
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Greece's open floodgates
Agora, including floods and forest fires. Handing out compensation is the easy part, working on prevention... as extensive measures to prevent forest fires, there needs to be a cross-party push that would make... Karameros (SYRIZA) appeared on a TV panel show on Saturday wearing a fluorescent jacket of the type
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Mitsotakis faces press in attempt to defuse criticism over wildfire handling
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe management of the catastrophic forest fires of the prior week. Mitsotakis, who apologised in a televised... earmarked from the EU recovery package and the next round of structural funds for the green..., while seeking to reassure critics that there would be no land use change for burned forest areas
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Opposition slams PM's positive assessment of Athens wildfire response
PoliticsGreek Politicsunstoppable wildfire spreading across a front of 30 km, burning over 10,000 hectares of forest, orchards... 10 percent of the burned area was forest, while fewer than 100 buildings were damaged with only... that the capital is being steadily denuded of its surrounding green spaces as summer temperatures increase
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societyof the most recent developments is shipowner Vangelis Marinakis, who owns Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest... the monopoly on print press distribution, and was already at an advanced stage of licensing a new TV channel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase
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In tight election race, rare TV debate carries element of unknown
PoliticsGreek Politics. A Pulse poll for Action 24 TV on Tuesday was the latest to indicate that the situation remains very
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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, with the government hoping to recover from the blow dealt by the Council of State and New Democracy hoping to inflict further damage on the coalition. A new cross-party attempt to appoint a board
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Expert report highlights systemic failings in aftermath of deadly Mati wildfire
Societyare an important backdrop to the present situation. In recent decades, urban development and other human... urgency and impact. Greece is also alone in not having a completed national land register or forest
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Wildfire threat to air base puts government in embarrassing position
PoliticsGreek Politicsemblematic policies and one which has received strong public support. Against this backdrop, the sight... agents being behind forest fires in Grecee is decades-old and is often circulated in such circumstances
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