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Samaras Rebuffs Partners on ERT

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has defended his decision to shut down the country’s public ERT broadcaster and ignored please from his coalition partners to change his mind, setting up a possible showdown with them unless they back...

New ERT Will Open In August

Greek government spokesman, Simos Kedikoglou, who didn't speak out about mismanagement at the state broadcaster ERT when he worked there but has defended the move to close it because of what he said was waste and inefficiency at the...

Defiant ERT Journalists Stay on Air

Ignorning a government order to leave the building, and with riot police assembled at vantage points around Athens, journalists from ERT, the public broadcaster that was shut down almost immediately on June 11 stayed on the air through the...

Greece Pulls The Plug On ERT

Employees of the Greek national broadcaster ERT who vowed to stay on the air even as the government said the TV and radio stations funded by mandatory payments in electric bills would close and then re-open with a drastically...

Greek State Broadcaster ERT To Close; Re-Open With Smaller Force

Greece's public broadcasting system ERT, funded with mandatory withdrawals from electric bill payments, will close and then reopen with a far smaller number of workers, the government said. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said that ERT, criticized for being overstaffed, was...

Mass Firings Seen Set at ERT

Under the pressure of the Troika for the shrinking of the public sector staff, Samaras' government is planning radical changes in the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the Greek state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. The government is considering using...

Greek 2013 Primary Deficit Beats Target

While the Greek economy shrank 5.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter this year, the Finance Ministry said the primary deficit also fell as deep spending cuts offset less-than-expected tax revenues that were far off...

Lawmakers Mull Time For Greek Debtors

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and one of his two coalition partners, the PASOK Socialists, failing to pay banks 250 million euros ($330.65 million) in loans and giving immunity to loan officers for...

Vaxevanis' Lagarde List Trial Delayed

A second trial for Greek investigative journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who was cleared last year of breaching privacy rights but is being prosecuted again on the same charge because the prosecution was unhappy he was acquitted, has been postponed to...

Tsipras Says Samaras Continues IMF Mistake

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has lambasted Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras for staying with austerity measures ordered by international lenders even though the International Monetary Fund...