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Greeks Want ERT Back, Not Elections

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...

Another 800 Greek Workers On Firing Line

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who ordered the firing of all 2,656 workers at the national broadcaster ERT to satisfy international lenders, is going to follow up with the dismissal of another 800 civil servants from state organizations which...

Samaras OK's Temporary ERT Broadcast

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...

Eleven-Year-Old Sends Letter to Greek PM

Eleven-year-old Nikiforos Papadopoulos sent a letter to the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, concerning the closing down of the state public broadcaster, ERT. “I wrote and sent a letter to the prime minister and I asked him to re-open ERT...

Greece Gets 3.3B Euro Loan OK

While attention in Greece is locked squarely on the shutdown of the national broadcaster ERT and the crisis it has provoked with the coalition government, the country's international lenders privately approved release of a pending loan installment of 3.3...

Prosecutors Will Look For ERT Corruption

Amid complaints of favoritism and patronage from disgruntled and angry former staff members of the Greek national broadcaster ERT, all 2,656 of whom were fired by the government on June 11 with five minutes notice, Athens Prosecutor of Corruption...

Council Of State To Hear ERT Case

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...

Venizelos, Kouvelis ERT Showdown With Samaras

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...

Elections Could Save Papaconstantinou

If a growing political crisis surrounding the Greek coalition government over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras- a move that made him lose the support of his coalition partners - leads to early...

Niki Ashton Opposes ERT’s Shutdown

The New Democratic Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Churchill in Manitoba, Canadian-Greek, Niki Ashton,  has expressed her opposition to the decision of the Greek government and its leader, Antonis Samaras, as a member of Her Majesty's...