Greek industry asks for aid as end of lockdown looms

In the latest European country tentatively reopen for business, income-less entertainment businesses say they need state help to get back up and running

Greek cultural sites such as the Acropolis will reopen from 18 May © Tamás Csaba Kádár

As Greece begins to lift its strict Covid-19 lockdown measures, a coalition of the country’s arts and culture workers – most of whom will be excluded by the limited resumption of live…

entertainment this summer – are demanding immediate financial aid to see them through the “forced unemployment” of the coming months.

Under the banner Support Art Workers, some 17,000 musicians, artists, technical staff and other creative professionals have hit out at what they call the “absence of any…

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