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Budget targets are set Gov’t aims to lower deficit with strong growth, tight fiscal policy The 2008 budget, unveiled by the government yesterday, aims at cutting the deficit by almost one percentage point to 1.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), with the help of a robust economy and a tight fiscal policy.

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PASOK race still between 3 contenders

Athens MP Anna Diamantopoulou said yesterday she will not stand as a candidate for leader of PASOK...

Health system gets low score

Greece fell five positions in a Europe-wide survey of national health systems after scoring poorly...

‘Trial fixers’ face justice

An Athens court hearing the trial of former judges, lawyers and businessmen implicated in a trial-fixing ring...

Plan for Balkan child alert

Greek police and child protection groups are to cooperate with their regional counterparts...

Son who killed abusive father released on bail

A 19-year-old man who was arrested in Nikaia in February for stabbing his father to death was released...

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor orders probe into firms causing toxicity of river's waters : An appeals court prosecutor yesterday ordered an urgent preliminary investigation...

Former university rector, jailed for embezzlement, loses bid for freedom : An appeals court in Athens has rejected a bid by the former rector of Panteion University...

Blazes in Peloponnese, Epirus, doused : A fire that broke out in a forested area near Megalopolis...

Intern shot : A female university student doing her internship at a bank in Iraklion, Crete, was injured...

Blood banks : Cord blood banking, the storage of umbilical cord blood for future use, is rapidly...

Motorcycle thieves : Two Albanian migrants were arrested near Ioannina yesterday...

Crops damaged : A hail storm in Corinth in the Peloponnese on Sunday caused widespread damage to crops...

Meningitis scare : A high school and primary school complex in Kato Patissia...


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EDITORIAL

Taking the color out of corruption The current tax rate on fuel may have been easy on households. However, at the same time it seems to have encouraged a great deal of tax dodging and corruption. Entire businesses have lived off the illegal practice of decoloring oil and some people were thus able to make fortunes at the expense of the common good. All wise-headed people therefore welcome the government's decision to clamp down on this unlawful practice...

COMMENTARY

Back to society PASOK's crisis is not just a leadership crisis. It's also a political crisis. And it concerns not only the Socialist barons but society itself: Society can sense the symptoms of an ailing PASOK, the biggest political party in the post-1974 period. Wise-headed people worry whether PASOK will continue to exist as a united and battle-ready party and how this can come about. The answer will determine the shape of our body politic.

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