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  • Not dodging the tough decisions

    By Alexis Papachelas For the past three-and-a-half years, the Greek political system has been dragging its feet and hemming and hawing over a relatively simple decision: which state organizations are needed, how many employees they need to have, and what to do with workers whose posts are made redundant by a civil service overhaul.At the same time, politicians have managed to take some very ...

  • Shaking up Greece’s democratic system

    In Italy, where the term was first used after the war, it implied all the political parties that opposed fascism – from the Italian communists to Christian democrats. In Greece, things are a bit more complicated. First because the Greek communists of KKE were never like their Italian counterparts. A part of KKE appeared to condone some degree of violence and it was half-hearted in its ...

  • ERT shutdown Greece puts pressure on Israeli firm over state broadcaster

    ERT on air was owned by an Israeli firm.Defiant journalists occupying ERT studios in Athens and Thessaloniki have been able to keep an unbroken skeleton news service going since 11 June, when Samaras ordered its abrupt closure, thanks to the European Broadcasting Union which provided technical facilities to continue transmitting into Greek homes via three satellites.Officials in Athens confirmed ...

  • Workers at Greek TV station vow to fight on

    ERT reacted with applause and cheers to news of the court ruling ordering the reopening of the Greek broadcaster. But their relief is only temporary as the court appears to have vindicated Prime Minister Samaras’s stance that a leaner, cheaper, public broadcaster must eventually be set up. It will mean a drastically changed company with whole departments disappearing when it is ...

  • Greeces state TV to reopen after court ruling

    ERT back on air. The ruling follows last week’s sudden switch-off ordered by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in a bid to save money and please foreign lenders. The subsequent outcry from journalists, unions and the government’s coalition partners exposed rifts with Samaras’s allies and threw up the spectre of a snap election. ';The court ruling ordering the reopening of ...


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Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD]

Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD]

High-pressure salesmen are always walking a thin, dangerous line between their main purpose in life (which is to deceive or, at the very best, to bend the truth to their advantage) and how they must appear (which is honest and genuine) . Whether or not a salesman truly believes he is selling a good product is immaterial. His main function is to tell you what he thinks you want to hear so you will ... ...

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  • Greeks strike over state TV closure as backlash grows

    Greek workers will stage a nationwide strike on Thursday, forcing hospitals to work on emergency staff and disrupting transport, in protest against the "sudden death" of state broadcaster ERT, switched off in the middle of the night by the government. Greece's two biggest labor unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill during the 24-hour strike ...

  • Greek broadcaster ERT reopens after court victory

    A musician with the ERT symphony orchestra reacts to a court order for the Greek state broadcaster to stay open during a restructure. Photograph: Simela ...

  • Greek court orders immediate reopening of ERT

    An employee of state broadcaster ERT is seen in the master control room of the station in Athens during a live broadcast yesterday. Photograph: Yannis ...

  • Greece coalition leaders remain divided

    Greece's coalition government appeared bitterly divided after the leaders of the three partieswrapped up a meeting to stave off a political crisis caused by Prime Minister Samaras' decision to pull theplug off the country's public broadcaster overnight on June 11. During the meeting, which lasted for more than three hours, Greece's highest court issued an injunction ...

  • Greece to Meet Wednesday on Public Broadcaster Closure

    ATHENS--The heads of Greece's three-way coalition government appeared to move toward a compromise Monday in an effort to defuse tensions over the sudden closure of the country's public broadcaster. The party leaders--from the conservative New Democracy, socialist Pasok and small Democratic Left parties--agreed to meet again Wednesday to discuss details regarding the closure, after ...

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