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New episode in Greek TV drama
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe suspense continues. A high court will hear a case against the government over its TV licensing... the news media. The Council of State’s 16-9 decision on Tuesday to take the complaints of private TV... complicated: A bid winner dropped out and was replaced, and TV companies strafed the government and each
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Coalition eyes electoral change, polls show wide lead for New Democracy
PoliticsGreek Politics, but SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) did not agree because the opposition party did not support... that New Democracy has moved into clear majority territory. According to the Pulse poll for Skai TV.... Interior Minister Panos Skourletis revealed on Friday that the government intends to table during
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Reshuffle expected to follow minister's departure in wake of Mati disaster
PoliticsGreek Politics(ANEL) had announced a boycott of Skai TV and radio due to a disagreement about its coverage. Reshuffle.... For now, Toskas’s duties have passed to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis. This is just a stopgap
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politicsa lengthy live interview with Alpha TV in which he picked up where he left off in Parliament... partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is expected to depart once the Prespes Agreement on the Macedonia... with 4,500 next year. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry estimates that there are roughly 35,000
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Digital initiatives challenged by opposition focussed on cost of living and political hires
PoliticsGreek Politics. Pierrakakis told Skai TV that close to 44,000 documents were downloaded within the first hour.... ND had used the same figures to attack the SYRIZA-ANEL government on the eve of the 2019 elections...’s deeds have not matched their words. Shadow interior spokesman Costas Zachariadis pointed
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PM prepares to defend inflation fight against backdrop of political gridlock
PoliticsGreek Politics. Opinion polls Two new opinion polls released this week in Greece - by Opinion Poll for Action 24 TV
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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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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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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s manifesto in front of the TV cameras at the Megaron concert hall in Athens... subsidy scheme, the increase in the minimum wage and the reduction of VAT on food product... the weekend when SYRIZA’s former coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) announced it will not compete
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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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