ekathimerini.com | Internet Edition/Front Page

Exclusively available inside The International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus

Friday March 2, 2007 - Archive

Current Edition | Athens Stock Exchange | Useful Information | Greek Edition | Site Search

Search

Home page

ENGLISH EDITION

Date

02/03/2007

- Frontpage

- News

- Commentaries

- S/E Europe

- Features

- Sports

RSS

TOP STORY
Papandreou shifts gear PASOK leader seeks to gain ground by revealing ambitious policy program PASOK leader George Papandreou made a bid for center stage on Greece's political scene yesterday as he presented a 10-point policy plan which he hopes will help get the Socialists back into power.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

The Cartoon Of The Day


Athens firm on NATO decision

The government yesterday stressed that Greece would do everything possible to protect its interests...

Land Registry drive next year

The owners of most homes in Attica, Thessaloniki and other major cities will be asked to pay to register their properties...

Soldier leaks army secrets

A 23-year-old army conscript has been charged with violating state secrets after allegedly uploading confidential military documents...

Hospital supplies to be checked

A draft bill heralded yesterday by Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos foresees the creation of a state-run committee...

Lunar eclipse to light up Saturday night sky

A lunar eclipse on Saturday night will give people around Greece several hours to experience a dazzling array of colors in the sky...

IN BRIEF

Officials say site in Samaria will accept visitors in some six weeks : One of Crete's main tourist attractions, the Samaria Gorge, is due to open in about six weeks...

Aussie visit : PM is considering trip to Australia : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has not set a date for a possible visit to Australia...

Eurovision entry : The London-born Lebanese-Cypriot singer Sarbel will represent Greece in the Eurovision song contest...

Cameron chided : The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece yesterday accused filmmaker James Cameron of «historical ignorance»...

Smuggler caught : A Turkish national believed to have smuggled 24 illegal immigrants to Samos from neighboring Turkey earlier this week...

Serial fraudster : Police on Rhodes yesterday arrested a 49-year-old man who allegedly extracted...

TODAY : Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis to meet with Education Minister Marietta Giannakou...


[ Reload ]
[ Front Page ] [ News ] [ Commentaries ] [ S/E Europe ] [ Features ] [ Business & Finance ] [ Arts & Leisure ] [ Sports ]
[ Subscriptions ] [ Editor ] [ Webmaster ]


A protester tries...
EDITORIAL

Remedying health wastefulness Healthcare spending poses one of the biggest economic threats to the survival of any welfare state. Even a tightfisted welfare system is strained by new technologies that add to the financial burden. It's not hard to imagine the pressure on Greece's welfare state, one that is mired in a lack of transparency and the squandering of public money. Faced with these threats, a modern state can only address the concerns on wastefulness.

COMMENTARY

NATO’s helping hand It should come as no surprise that Turkey has tried to classify the Aegean island of Aghios Efstratios as a demilitarized area. Since there is no explicit reference in the Lausanne Treaty, the Turkish theory goes, it could even be classed as a gray area - such as happened with Gavdos. But Turkish policymakers know better than that.

English Edition - Greece's International English Language Newspaper
Exclusively available inside The International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus