European Parliament discusses Greek journalist's dismissal

The dismissal of journalist Stelios Kouloglou from the Greek public television broadcaster ERT is being discussed in the European Parliament, the newspaper writes. "In a paper submitted to Mr. Pöttering, President of the European Parliament, MEPs ... Marilena Koppa, Stavros Lamprinidis, Kostas Botopoulos, Anna Podimata and Dimitris Papadimoulis ... have voiced their concerns about Kouloglou's dismissal and how it was carried out. ... Asked whether the American embassy had a hand in the dismissal, government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos stated: 'I have heard nothing of the sort. ... Political interventions of the type we saw in the past no longer exist in this government'."

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