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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Greece: TV screens still blank amid dispute

A man holds a child, in front of the ERT3 building during a protest . Exactly one year ago, Greece’s conservative prime minister won the mandate to form a coalition government with a daunting brief: Restart punishing reforms, keep the debt-stifled country in the eurozone and end months of political chaos. The latter has proved harder, and Antonis Samaras is now making a last-ditch bid to quell a revolt by key allies over his decision to close the country’s state TV and radio broadcaster ERT, axing nearly 2,700 jobs to meet austerity targets. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — State TV signals remain blank in Greece as parties in the governing coalition were still at odds over what to do with public broadcaster ERT.



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