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The great turn-off: Greece's TV permits auction
AgoraAt the start of the process to auction four TV licenses in Athens last week, one of the people... as a supposed effort to establish some order in the opaque world of Greek broadcasting had descended... of usual suspects did not seem to herald a new era for TV in Greece. Beyond that, the start of the auction
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Mitsotakis shifts focus to tax plan, investment, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsa stronger footing: Investment, tax relief and law and order. Mitsotakis held an informal meeting... on a popular morning TV show on Sunday for an extended interview, during which he went into some detail... and order issue in his televised interview, which was conduced just a few hours after the anti-terrorism
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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government’s will to put in order the TV sector, where impunity reigns,” said government spokeswoman Olga... of 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
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PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate
PoliticsGreek Politicsand order agenda. Since Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s recent trip to the USA and the subsequent... struggled to convince the public that the trip went well. An opinion poll by MRB for Star TV indicates... it to strengthen the economic recovery and to restore law and order. He went on to reference both left
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SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog
PoliticsGreek Politics. 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... of relevant frequencies” but it was one of the measures proposed by the Greek side in order to meet
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TV permit tender triggers turmoil in Greek judiciary, questions about gov't role
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo issues that have been thorns in the government’s side in recent weeks: The TV licence tender... there was no chance of the court deeming the TV auction to be unconstitutional, even though... in order to shape the result. That is certainly the main impression that the Greek public has been left
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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... administration will simply continue its efforts to regulate the TV broadcasting sector if the tender... and the government in order to prevent another front opening up for Tsipras. After the meeting Skourletis
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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... it won less than 60,000 votes (1.04 percent). Polydoras, a former public order minister and former
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From nice story to pulped fiction: Carney delivers reality check on rules-based order
Agoraorder, or disorder, that the world needed, enabling leaders to assess options based on a realistic... “international rules‑based order” was little more than a diplomatic euphemism. It created the illusion... it, it was simply “a nice story.” “We knew the story of the international rules‑based order was partially
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Police actions draw attention to ND's law and order agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsand order. The conservatives promised to tighten things up upon coming to power. Since July, law and order has been high on the government agenda and the interventions at the Athens University of Business... behaviour. “The law and order agenda and practice followed by the government is a strategic choice,” said
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