Greek state broadcaster the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) stayed on the airwaves on Wednesday (12 June), defying plans by the leading party in the country's coalition government to close it down.
ERT journalists continued to work from their studios, broadcasting programmes on the Internet, with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) retransmitting them via satellite.
Spanish channel TVE and a Greek Communist-Party-owned broadcaster, 902, also broadcast ERT material for ...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.