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workers Greek broadcaster ERT continue broadcasting from a site occupied their information for a third day. The government, meanwhile, is not willing to change its stance on the closure and 2,600 layoffs.

More and more messages of support coming from abroad and the president of the European Parliament, the Social Martin Schultz, sent a letter to Prime Minister Andonis Samaras, which asks you to “reconsider” the lock and ensure the operation of public television while carrying forward the “necessary” restructuring.

The president of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU, its acronym in English), Jean-Paul Filippo, on the other hand, exprofeso traveled to Athens in solidarity with the template ERT and deliver in person a letter to Finance Minister Yannis Sturnaras, in which it urged the government to immediately restore the signal and to revoke the closure of the chain.

Never since the creation of the European Union a country broadcasting signal cut public television ” Never since the creation of the European Union a country broadcasting signal cut public television, “said Filippo a press conference at the headquarters of ERT Athens, in which he stated have the support of 51 directors public television “to speak well on your behalf”. The president stressed the fundamental importance that each country has an independent, pluralistic, transparent and sustainable.

Green MEP also Rebecca Harms passed ERT headquarters to give his personal support. Speaking to the media, Harms said it is important that Greece is made with a “strong media law” because she only said, you can ensure the proper functioning of democracy.

Issuance ERT through internet channels, haltingly for some TV channel , is being maintained de spite Sturnaras threatened yesterday to sanction the non stop such illegal acts. While the occupation began and on Tuesday afternoon, nothing knowing the closing announcement, ERT officially ceased to exist on Wednesday, which, according to the minister, any emissions is illegal since.

Meanwhile, a Finance Ministry spokesman, confirmed that the Eurogroup Working Group given “green light” to the disbursement of the next tranche of bailout worth 3,300 million euros and said the closure ERT “contributed” to that decision.

One of the criticisms leveled at the opposition Samaras has been precisely have forced the pace of adjustment to meet the troika of creditors, even after the failure of the sale of the gas company DEPA to the Russian Gazprom, which the government promised revenues of about 1,000 million euros.

All media will continue to strike until Monday Thousands came back to ERT headquarters on the outskirts of Athens, to protest against the government’s decision. At the same time, some public entity workers took their protests at Syntagma Square, in the center of the city, and to Parliament unfurled a huge banner that read: “ERT is not for sale “.

All media, both newspapers and radio and television stations, meanwhile announced that they will continue to strike until next Monday , with the exception of digital reporting on the events surrounding the closure of ERT or retransmit its signal.

is scheduled for Monday a meeting of the three leaders of the coalition , which will address the government crisis triggered by a decision taken unilaterally by Samaras. Also for Monday is expected that the Council of State (highest court of administrative litigation) to rule on the request of the council of ERT to impose an injunction against the closing