Greek court forbade close state television - Russian Newspaper

Greek court suspended a government decree on closing state TV ERT, which sparked a wave of mass protests across the country.

According to the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court, the corporation may continue to broadcast until until there is a new national media company.

This judgment means that the state radio and television can begin a news release before the final decision on the case. The case is scheduled for September this year.

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recall, the Greek government announced the closure of ERT on June 11. A spokesman for the Cabinet Simos Kedikoglu, explaining the move, said the company has been a model of opacity, waste, and the government could no longer tolerate this state of affairs. Kedikoglu, by the way former journalist ERT, said the channel, which is funded by taxes of citizens, working several times more people than necessary.

According to him, the authorities will reconsider the concept of public service broadcasting, and create a new, more cost-efficient company. The new company will replace the ERT in the current year and its annual budget will be 100 million euros, which is 3 times less than the current spending on public TRC.

However, the explanation

Press Secretary to the Cabinet of Ministers of Greece were not accepted by the population, and two days after the country began a national strike in protest against the sudden closure of the channel. It was attended by all the trade unions and the Greek media.

This is not surprising. After all, Greece to meet its obligations to lay off about two thousand civil servants up to the end of this year and 15,000 – until the end of 2014 to reduce government spending. Only in this case, the authorities will have a new financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund to rescue the national economy. However, this approach pushes Greece to the abyss of unemployment in the country. In I quarter of this year, the figure once again broke the European record, reaching 27.4 percent.