The signatories, meeting in Cyprus to promote diversity in the media, have learned with indignation and shock of the brutal closure of the public broadcasting service in Greece.

The signatories demand that the Greek government reverse this decision without delay. Public broadcasting is a precondition of pluralism and of the quality of TV and radio programmes.

The signatories express their full solidarity with their Greek colleagues and call upon the media across Europe to condemn this authoritarian suppression of public-service broadcasting.

The massive, imposed cuts in public employment are an inadequate response to the economic and financial crisis. The decision by the Greek government to deprive the public of a service to which it has a right constitutes an attack on freedom of expression and democracy.

Contact :   Moschos Voitsidis, President of the Journalists Union of Macedonia and Thrace ([email protected];  [email protected], [email protected])

Nicosie, 12 juin 2013

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