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The Belgian newspaper De Morgen referred on June 17  to the protest letter given to the Greek Embassy in Brussels  by about 50 Belgian journalists asking for the immediate reopening of ERT. As mentioned in De Morgen, the message of...

While defiant former workers of the now defunct national state TV and radio operation ERT were continuing to broadcast via satellite, the symbol of the New Hellenic Radio Internet and Television (NERIT), the name of the organization which will...

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...

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...

An aide for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there hadn't been any recent contact with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras but that she said the closing of Greece's national broadcaster ERT was his doing and she had no input. Merkel,...

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...

The television viewers of Crete have been able to watch the state TV program since 13.30. The TV screen that turned black on the night of June 11 is broadcasting live with programs run by journalists and technicians of the...