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  • 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 ...

  • Greek coalition averts collapse over closure of state broadcaster

    Greece's governing coalition avoided collapse on Monday night in the wake of a dispute over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's decision to close the state television ...


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  • Greek court orders state broadcaster reopened PM offers reshuffle

    ATHENS (AFP) - 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.The ruling by the Council of State -- Greece's top administrative court -- came six days after the sudden closure that triggered national outrage and destabilised the coalition government.It was ...

  • Court orders Greek broadcaster ERT back on air

    Greece A Greek court has ruled that closed-down state broadcaster ERT must reopen immediately, offering the squabbling ruling coalition a way out of a political crisis over the station's abrupt closure.The ruling - which ordered ERT to be switched back on until a restructured public broadcaster is launched - comes six day after prime minister Antonis Samaras took it off air in the name of ...

  • Coalition crisis talks to continue

    A cameraman of state broadcaster ERT films in a studio of the station in Athens during a live broadcast on Monday. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition partners arranged a new round of crisis talks for Wednesday after a meeting on Monday aimed at resolving a serious dispute over the closure of state broadcaster ERT failed to yield a compromise, though a court decision appeared to ...

  • Greece may be struggling for bailout money but venture capital is pouring in

    start-ups are proliferating in Athens , by one estimate numbering some 150. So where is all the money behind them coming from? The EU chips in In the past few months, several venture capitalists and incubators have opened their doors--and their checkbooks--to Greek entrepreneurs. Among them are Odyssey, First Athens, Openfund 2 and PJ Tech Catalyst. Estimates vary but together those 4 firms ...

  • Grecovery and the Ditch Greece is Digging

    ';Not only are they afraid to give a vote of confidence to ‘Grecovery’, but they also bring up ‘Grexit’ again,'; was cited in the Financial Times. On the occasion of the expulsion of the country form the MSCI World Index, which, as it is referred, was received with negative comments by investors, the publication completely questions the possibility of the Greek ...

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