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Old Church in Korçë Plundered

The  400-year-old church of Saint George in Moscopole, in the Korçë District, southeastern Albania, was plundered in the early morning hours of June 17. The thieves sawed the bars of the outer door and managed to remove an important part of...

Belgian Journalists’ Protest for ERT

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...

Erdogan Blasts EU and Media

Thousands of followers of the Justice and Development Party gathered on June 16 in Kazlıçeşme Square and listened to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announcing that such gatherings are going to take place on June 22 and 23 in Erzurum and...

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...

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...

Bank of Greece Completes Capital Hike

The National Bank of Greece has raised collects private funds of at least 1.1 billion euros, ($1.47 billion) increasing its capital without issuing contingent convertible bonds (CoCos). As newmoney.gr reports, the National Bank of Greece approached its target to cover...

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...

Attiko Metro Revenues Fall Short

The Attiko Metro (AM), the public company building the underground railway networks in Athens and Thessaloniki has no more revenues after the application of Reppas’ law for urban transport. As AM’s financial reports reveal, the company added a further 141 million...

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...