The artists gathered near the State Council and filed a petition to annul Presidential Decree No. 85 of 22, which they complain equates their diplomas with high school diplomas.

“We have completed the dossier of filing a DP revocation report with the Council of Europe, a revocation statement that we have been preparing for a long time,” said President of the Panhellenic Federation of Music Shows Kostas Kehajioglu.

Artists are on another 24-hour strike today.

Then the crowd that had gathered at the Council of Europe headed towards the parliament. According to ERT, the protest was accompanied by a funeral procession and a symbolic “funeral”. Mlow intensity noted when The policemen did not let the crowd outside of parliament. The assembled artists stepped forward and staged a sit-in protest.

“The commitment of the Prime Minister that by the end of the week a legislative decree will be presented, by noon, I think we can study and re-evaluate it,” said the president of the Panhellenic Federation of Spectators and Spectators. .

Giatromanolakis: Announcing rules for artists today

Deputy Minister of Culture Nicolas Giatromanolakis said in a speech to Parliament that a regulation on artists’ salaries would be announced today, “which he says will remove the injustices and distortions of decades.” The Deputy Minister spoke in the context of the discussion of the topical issue of the KKE MP Yiannis Delis “on the professional rights of artists and artistic research in Greece”.

Mr. Giatromanolakis also said that foundations are being laid for the academic side as well, noting that “whether it will be a separate university, will it be departments in existing universities, or how will higher education in the performing arts be structured.” , this is the field of interdepartmental working groups, the results of which will be announced on March 31.

“We will talk about the form of education at the university level, they will be free and public,” he stressed, adding that directly interested bodies will also participate in the consultation.

Source: APE-ME, ERT.