ERT closing down

In an interview withthe German newspaper Die Welt, the Minister for Development & Competitiveness Kostis Hatzidakis indirectly accused former Interior Minister Antonis Manitakis for the state public broadcaster ERT’s closing down, even though Manitakis had opposed it. “Given the fact...

The news that Greece’s public broadcaster ERT will close down and then reopen with a far smaller number of workers is traveling around the world. Minutes after the Government spokesman, Simos Kedikoglou, announced that ERT will close, the American news...