Igoumenitsa Greece – For the past two years, the residents of Greece’s northwest province of Epirus have been tripping up on short wooden stakes planted about a foot high in the ground. They stand in rows that continue interminably through villages, over meadows and mountains, blue ribbons fluttering from their tops.
The Foreign Press Association in Greece (FPA) and the Athens office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) organized a public discussion on media in Greece. During the event named ”Media in Greece: Watchdog or Lapdog?”, panelists discussed the state of press freedom, the financial distress of media, their tight grip on state power and private business interests […]
