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Greece's highest court, the Council of State, dealt Prime Minister Antonis Samaras a blow when it ruled late on June 17 to overturn his decision to shut down the national  broadcaster ERT last week. The decision means ERT can resume...

Just when it seemed that Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had quelled social unrest and said he was putting the country on the road to recover, his snap decision to shut down the national broadcaster ERT without warning has...

Scorned by his coalition partners who rejected his offer to let the national broadcaster ERT – shut down on June 11 – almost immediately return to the air with a skeleton staff until it can be reorganized, Greek Prime...

Using fiery rhetoric to draw an analogy to the military rule of the 1967-74 junta, major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras blamed Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras for being behind the decision to shut...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's snap decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT by decree to get around the Parliament has backfired in the opinion of Greeks who oppose it by a 2-to-1 margin, polls have found. A Kapa Research...

Hounded by howls of protests within Greece and Europe over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT to meet demands by international lenders to start firing public servants, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has reportedly agreed to let information programs...

Greece's highest court, the Council of State, will decide on Jun 17 whether to overturn the decision by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to shut down the national broadcaster ERT and fire all 2,656 workers, although he said a slimmed-down...

Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras has set a June 18 meeting with his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who are demanding he withdraw a decree that...

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...

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...