New Democracy on TV licence tender result
The government is celebrating today the definition of corruption, main opposition New Democracy (ND) spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos commenting the result of TV licences' tender.
The government is celebrating today the definition of corruption, main opposition New Democracy (ND) spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos commenting the result of TV licences' tender.
The tender for the TV licenses was absolutely successful, State Minister Nikos Pappas said in statements outside the building of the General Secretariat of Information and Communication early on Friday.
"I did not expect such a high price," he added.
"The tender was absolutely sacksful and gives Greece the opportunity to take a step forward to a new television era, where legitimacy is crystal clear," he underlined.
Skai TV, Ioannis Kalogritsas, ANTENNA TV and Alter Ego of Vangelis Marinakis are the winners of the the TV licences after 66 hours of bidding.
The total amount the Greek state will receive is 246 million euros.
Greek authorities have finally located a speedboat carrying irregular migrants, which had sent a distress signal via the European emergency number early on Wednesday morning.
The ancient theatre of Delos will revive after two thousand years of silence. The play, "Hecuba (Ekavi), a refugee in Delos," is organised by the Cyclades Antiquities Ephorate and the Municipality of Mykonos is a minimum contribution to the people's awareness on the refugees' tragedy that the human kind experiences and takes place in the waters of the Aegean.