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Smoking controls come into effect
Cafes and restaurants yesterday scrambled to prepare for the introduction of European Union-dictated smoking restrictions as the Health Ministry issued the official decision explaining their obligations at the eleventh hour. |
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Swifter justice for all
The unjustifiable delays that plague the administration of justice in major cases in Greece have reached a ludicrous extreme and are at the point of undermining the entire system.
In the United States, former financier Bernard Madoff, accused of a 50-billion-dollar fraud, was arrested in December right after the accusations became known and before six months passed, he had gone on trial and been sentenced.
Sadly, here in Greece, cases take years to reach a courthouse, the protagonists are placed under arrest with considerable delay and only after they have exhausted every possible opportunity to cover their tracks and hide as much evidence as they can. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Greece in the world
Greece's relationship with the rest of the world is something of a see-saw oscillation between self-absorption and extroversion, between navel-gazing and punching above its weight in the international arena. On the one hand, this is the result of the intense local politics in which all Greeks are involved and, on the other, of the demands placed on the country by its responsibilities as a member of international organizations. Greece's current presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), like its presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2003, is purely the result of chance. |
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