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Gov’t subsidize newspapers with €6.7million, from Keep Talking Greece
UPDATE from KTG: "After the outcry on social media, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said late on Saturday that the ministerial decision is being withdrawn and called on political parties for a meeting next week to submit their ideas for improvement".
Kathimerini, 14.12.2019, Ανακαλείται το πρόγραμμα ενίσχυσης κυκλοφορίας των εφημερίδων πανελλήνιας κυκλοφορίας
"The Joint Ministerial Decision on the granting of beneficiaries to the relevant program for the support of companies issuing Greek national newspapers, as announced by government spokesman Stelios Petsas, is revoked on 12.12.2019...Representatives of the political parties on press issues are called on Monday, December 16, 2019 at 11:30 am. to the General Secretariat for Communication and Information, in order to express their proposals, if they so wish." - Google Translation.
Kathimerini, 14.12.2019- ΣΥΡΙΖΑ: Κριτική στην κυβέρνηση για τον τρόπο ενίσχυσης των πανελλαδικών εφημερίδων
(Criticisms of changes to the original Joint Ministerial Decision on the Pan-Hellenic Newspaper Support Programme - Κοινή Υπουργική Απόφαση για το Πρόγραμμα ενίσχυσης των εφημερίδων πανελλαδικής κυκλοφορίας).
See also (ResearchGate), abstract, Greece: Press Subsidies in Turmoil*, 2013, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Full Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens:
"In this chapter, I will critically analyze the Greek subsidy scheme for newspapers. I will argue that state aid for the press has been heavily influenced by the troubled Greek patronage politics. I will organize this chapter in two parts. The first part deals with the structure of the Greek media system, which has been heavily affected by the interplay between the political elite and the press. Second, I will point out that press subsidies have not been governed by a clear legal frame-work. Instead, I argue that press subsidies in Greece have been used as state instruments of appeasement and silencing the print media. I build on the suggestion that state–media relations in Greece are an asymmetric relationship and could best be described through the concept of clientelism, as I attempt to explain in the next section of this chapter. Finally, I will conclude that press subsidies in Greece are in a state of continuous turmoil. This is due to the financial crisis and the austerity package put in place which exerts huge pressure on the existing practices of the press support provisions".
* “Greece: Press Subsidies in Turmoil” in P.C. Murschetz (ed.), State Aid for Newspapers, Media Business and Innovation; Theories, Cases, Actions, New York: Springer, 2013, p. 237-521
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