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Estonian Public Broadcasting supports Greek counterpart
BC, Tallinn, 14.06.2013.
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Print versionThe Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) turned to the President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Jean-Paul Philippot, expressing concerns over the decision of the Greek government to close the state's public broadcasting company ERT, informs LETA.
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ERR board chairman Margus Allikmaa stresses in the letter that ERT was closed on June 11 immediately and without a discussion of it in the parliament befitting a democratic state.
"This undemocratic and completely unprofessional decision of the Greek government destroys the most important principle and one of the principles that is the requirement for a democratic states, which is the independence of the public media from the government.
The Estonian Pubic Broadcasting supports compiling a joint statement by EBU member organisations and sending it to the Greek prime minister. The joint statement must firmly demand immediate restoration of the activities of ERT," says the letter.
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