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PM pledges no new taxes and backs bailout PASOK attacks bank deal as a ‘crime’ Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis pledged yesterday not to introduce any new taxes as a result of the impacts of the global financial crisis, as he denied claims of opposition parties that he was «gifting» 28 billion euros to banks that will take part in the government's bailout plan.

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Hospital doctors planning walkouts

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FYROM gets EU name prod

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Halkia and coach charged over doping

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Banks, government offices, vehicles hit in dawn attacks : A barrage of bomb blasts...

Children must still attend : Religious education lessons remain...

Overprotective : A 19-year-old Bulgarian man has...

Landfill protest : Residents of Lefkimi...

Grisly murder : An Athens businessman has been found...

Mafia-style killing : Police are attributing...


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A dog basks... A dog basks on the hot paving slabs of a public square in Argolida, in the Peloponnese, yesterday, enjoying the sun...
EDITORIAL

Gov’t errors are taxing citizens The haphazard and irresponsible manner in which the government's economic advisers introduce new measures, such as the recent single property tax, is truly unbelievable. The members of hundreds of thousands of households are now being obliged to stand in long queues at tax offices around the country (which don't have a reputation for being very helpful or cordial at the best of times) in order to receive an exemption from paying taxes on their primary residence, a tax from which they are supposed to be exempt anyway. Sadly, it is one more example of a serious mistake on the part of the government for which citizens are being asked to pay the price.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

At last, elections It has become a cliche that the whole world is watching the US presidential election as if it concerned the leader of the whole planet. Whoever is elected on Tuesday will have George W. Bush to thank for that - not any of the presidents of the «Free World» of the previous decades. The 43rd president managed to make such a mess of the planet in the eyes of so many that his successor inherits the task (and embodies the world's hopes) of guiding the Earth toward a better direction. By default, the American president will now be the global leader.

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