"What we experienced yesterday was unprecedented, not only for Greece but for all of Europe. Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup." - Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA Party Leader
"They want to shut down ERT in order to manipulate the media as it suits them. They want to take full control all the mass media." - Yiorgos Savvides, Greek Journalists' Union Confederation
June 14, 2013 (AE) - The next thing to occur in Greece will be the government claiming that they can no longer afford to print Greek language school books, and the children will have to learn to speak German!!
If such a thing to were to occur, and that was a joke, the Golden Dawn neo Nazi fascists would cheer it on as nationalistic (while playing German music), just as the Golden Dawn is currently cheering on the destruction of the Greek public broadcasting ERT.
This is part of the EU's moves to "control" all European media, in every country... to "control" the narrative, to "censor" ALL information... as all EU member states fall like economic dominoes, and get absorbed into the new Holy Roman Empire 4.0 (ie, The Fourth Reich).
Here are videos of the latest EU stripping of Greece...