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Partnerships between state, private sector Bill to be tabled in the next few days Less than a month after Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias announced plans to effectively privatize Greece's national highway network, the Economy Ministry has drafted a bill on future partnerships between the public sector and private investors to build and maintain major public works.

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Tribute to pope paid by Greeks

As a book of condolences is opened in Athens today after the death of Pope John Paul II, Archbishop Christodoulos and Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday led the way for Greeks...

EC set to scrutinize Olympic

A team of experts from the European Commission is due to arrive in Athens within the next few days to investigate the running of beleaguered national carrier Olympic Airlines, less than two weeks before the deadline for the submission of privatization bids, sources told Kathimerini.

Irenaios and Qorei hold talks

RAMALLAH (AFP) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei held talks yesterday with the beleaguered Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, who pledged to cooperate with any probe into charges that the Patriarchate sold land to Jewish investors.

Honey to be recalled over poisonous residue

Development Ministry officials are to start urgent inspections on Greek honey products, after tests revealed that over half the country's main brands contained high levels of a poisonous chemical, the government said yesterday. Deputy Development Minister Yiannis Papathanassiou told a press conference that all products found to be over the European Union-approved ceiling for parabichlorobenzene...

IN BRIEF

Court rejects residents' appeal : The fifth section of the Council of State...

Migrants : A total of 104 Egyptian illegal imhave been detained...

FYROM talks : Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Valinakis and United Nations mediator...

Peacekeeper dead : A 33-year-old Greek officer serving with the European Union...

Anti-racism rally : Immigrants staged an in central Athens...


THIS WEEK

Monday : PASOK party's national council convenes...

Tuesday : Hellenic Management Association (EEDE) to award the prize...

Wednesday : Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage hosts a seminar...

Thursday : Athens pensioners to stage a protest against indirect tax increases...

Friday : President Karolos Papoulias to meet with his Bulgarian counterpart...

Saturday : Union of Judges and Prosecutors holds a general assembly...

Sunday : National highway toll increases come into effect...


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EDITORIAL

Tool for growth The new bill providing for joint state and private involvement in public works is a major step forward in bringing Greece into line with the prevailing trend in the European Union and in most other developed countries in Europe.

COMMENTARY

Weakness is our strength The tribulations of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem started in the usual fashion, namely with a series of «revelations» by the media (mainly Greek and then Israeli) that - by means of allusions and «logical deductions» - highlighted an incomprehensible case of corruption allegedly involving Patriarch Irenaios. And these revelations aggravated public opinion in a region where citizens are used to expressing their feelings in a particularly outgoing and boisterous way. Ultimately, however, the whole affair changed...

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