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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Greek court orders broadcaster ERT to be re-opened

Greece's top court has canceled the government's closure of public broadcaster ERT. The ruling orders the broadcaster to re-open on a "temporary" basis until a new national media body can be established.

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Shaking up Greece's democratic system


Kathimerini

Shaking up Greece's democratic system
Kathimerini
One would expect that a discussion with him about his latest book (“What Democracy for Greece After the Crisis?” – in Greek – published by Polis) would focus on very specific issues, such as the revision of the Constitution, the separation between ...


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Reprieve for Greek state broadcaster

Greece's top court ordered the government Monday to restart state broadcaster ERT, but only until it can set up a new media entity.

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Greece Looks at Speeding up Port Sale

The head of Greece's privatization agency says he is considering speeding up the sale of the country's principal port to help plug a giant hole in its sputtering privatization program.

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Global Metals Boom Is a Bust for Athens Bronzes

High prices for copper and other metals make statues of notable Greeks targets of theft.

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Progress Seen on Greek TV Dispute

The three party leaders in Greece's coalition government appeared to move closer to defusing tensions over the sudden closure of the country's public broadcaster, ERT.

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Greek political leaders to meet again on Wednesday

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek political leaders are to meet again on Wednesday to discuss a cabinet reshuffle and better coordination within the government, one of the junior partners in the ruling coalition said on Monday. "A reshuffle is urgently needed," PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said in a televised statement after the three party leaders held talks in an effort to diffuse a political ...

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Greek Public Broadcaster Back on Air After Court Victory

A Greek court reversed a government decision to shut down the ERT network, ordering the state broadcaster back on air while it restructures. read more        

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Greek court orders state broadcaster reopened, PM offers reshuffle

A Greek court on Monday suspended the government's shock decision to shut down state broadcaster ERT and ordered it reopened until a new national media body can be set up.

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Greek Court Orders State TV Reopened

A Greek court on Monday ordered the state broadcaster back on air while it is restructured.

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European Public Service Media Welcome Greek Court Ruling Restoring ERT Signal

GENEVA, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- European public service media (PSM) today welcomed a ruling by the top administrative court in Greece ordering the Greek government restore national broadcaster ERT ...

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Greek coalition avoids collapse over TV shutdown

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek government has avoided collapsing over a dispute stemming from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' move to close the state-owned television broadcaster after a high court ruling offered a way out of a week-long impasse that drew international criticism.

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News Summary: Greece's public TV still off air

THE LATEST: State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday even after a court ruled that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug on public broadcaster ERT was wrong. THE BACKGROUND: Conservative ...

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Greece raises 1.3 bn euros at steady 4% rate

Greece raised 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion) with a sale of three-month treasury bills on Tuesday, at a stable rate of 4.02 percent, the public debt management agency said.

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Greece: TV screens still blank amid dispute

State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT rages on. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras averted the threat of a snap ...

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Greece's public TV still off despite court ruling

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT rages on despite a court ruling that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug was wrong.

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Little refuge in Greece


Little refuge in Greece
Washington Post
Hatim Khalaf, left, and Constantin Ibrahim, right, brought their families to Greece to escape the war in Syria. Kostas Tsironis / For The Washington Post. Related Content. Ammar Khalaf, 11, sleeps inside an apartment that he shares with his father and ...


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Coal pollution in Greece causes 1200 premature deaths a year, study shows


Kathimerini

Coal pollution in Greece causes 1200 premature deaths a year, study shows
Kathimerini
Air pollution from Greece's coal power stations causes 1,200 premature deaths a year according to a study by the Stuttgart University's Institute for energy that was presented in Athens on Tuesday. The report, which was commissioned by Greenpeace and ...


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Germany pledges Greece backing, ahead of Schaeuble visit


Kathimerini

Germany pledges Greece backing, ahead of Schaeuble visit
Kathimerini
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he'll pay his first official visit to Athens to discuss ways to help Greek businesses, as the German government rallied to the side of Greece. Schaeuble, in a statement released in Berlin one day after ...
Crisis: Greece; German FinMin Schaeuble to visit AthensANSAmed
Schäuble Comes to Athens, Samaras Goes to BerlinGreek Reporter

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Greece's Dilemma: Too Much Austerity and Too Many Demons


Greece's Dilemma: Too Much Austerity and Too Many Demons
Huffington Post
The Greek government's closure of the national television and radio network last week marked the end of state-run television in Greece for the first time since 1974, when the country became a functional democracy. It also serves to symbolize that the ...
Greece: 'Government on a razor's edge'Presseurop (English)
Pangalos Doesn't Love VenizelosGreek Reporter

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Greece's PM offers to reopen 'lite' version of ERT


The Guardian

Greece's PM offers to reopen 'lite' version of ERT
The Guardian
Greece's prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has offered to reopen a pared-down version of the state broadcaster under temporary management and reshuffle the cabinet, a government official said on Monday, to try to defuse a political crisis and avoid a ...


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Zhu Min: IMF will learn lessons from mistakes in Greece


BBC News

Zhu Min: IMF will learn lessons from mistakes in Greece
BBC News
Zhu Min, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says his organisation made mistakes in trying to deal with the financial crisis in Greece. But he tells HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi the IMF will learn from its mistakes for the future.

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Eurozone crisis: Greece's top court blocks immediate closure of state ...


Eurozone crisis: Greece's top court blocks immediate closure of state ...
The Guardian
The dramatic court ruling from Greece is a good moment to stop the liveblog for the day. I"ll be back tomorrow morning for all the reaction to the news the ERT must remain open, and the political fallout of tonight's meeting between Antonis Samaras ...


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Wave of Protests Engulfs Greece


New York Times (blog)

Wave of Protests Engulfs Greece
New York Times (blog)
ATHENS — It seemed almost too good to be true: For months, relative stability had returned to Greece, and fears that the country would exit the euro had faded like a bad dream. But a political firestorm that ignited here last week after Prime Minister ...
Greece's Public TV Still off Despite Court RulingABC News
Greece court orders state broadcaster ERT back on airBBC News
Greece: TV screens still blank amid disputeBoston.com
The Guardian -euronews
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Syrian refugees find little help in Greece

Thousands of Syrians fleeing war and misery are making their way to Europe, and many are coming through Greece, whose Mediterranean islands stretch within tantalizing reach of home.

Once they get here, many wish they’d never come.

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Greeks go green thumb to fight recession


Greeks go green thumb to fight recession
Aljazeera.com
Greek unemployment - now the worst in Europe - reached 27.4 percent in the first three months of 2013, the government announced last week - the highest quarterly rate since such data began being collected in 1998. The number of jobless Greeks has ...


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