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Annan issues challenge to Papadopoulos He tells Cypriot leader to show way ahead UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan met yesterday with Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and challenged him to tell the world how the Greek Cypriots envisioned an end to Cyprus's division.

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Olympic borrowing is part of debt crisis

Greece has resorted to emergency borrowing to cope with excessive spending and the increased cost of funding the Olympic Games.

Friendly end to shipyard suit?

The German shipyard HDW, owners of Hellenic Shipyards, Greece's largest shipbuilding company located at Skaramangas, west of Athens, announced yesterday they were willing to drop a suit...

PM finds hospital units shut

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis found yesterday that the Thriasio Hospital in western Attica may have state-of-the-art facilities but many remain closed because of an old fashioned shortage of nursing staff.

Fight against exploitation

The Foreign Ministry yesterday announced an action plan to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation that includes doubling the budget allocated to non-governmental organizations...

Parliament spares three floral landmarks

Florists who have worked out of tiny stalls outside the Parliament building in central Athens rejoiced yesterday following a decision to spare three out of 10 of these landmarks due to go out of business under new draft legislation.

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EU waiting for outcome of elections, ex-PM Simitis tells Stephanopoulos : Former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, a member of Parliament after PASOK's defeat in the March elections...

Final section of main stadium's canopy starts sliding into place : Construction workers yesterday started sliding into position the second half of the roof...

Bakoyannis starts tour in New York : Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis yesterday announced the names of 140 New Yorkers who will be Olympic torchbearers...

Strike chaos : Traffic was disrupted in central Athens and flights canceled at the international airport yesterday...

Church : Members of the broader synod of Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios are to convene today...

Ferry tickets : Unilateral increases in ferry fares will not apply, Merchant Marine Minister Manolis Kefaloyiannis said yesterday...

Landfill fire : A team of 40 firefighters, with 11 fire engines, yesterday took just over an hour to extinguish a blaze...

Agricultural trade : Agricultural Development and Food Minister Savvas Tsitouridis and US Ambassador Thomas Miller yesterday discussed trade...


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Harri Rovanpera...
EDITORIAL

Fiscal crisis The comments yesterday by National Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis on Greece's fiscal woes can, in ordinary speech, be summed up in a banal albeit easily understood phrase: The State is broke. This, of course, could have already been deduced from the fabricated numbers published by the Socialist government of Costas Simitis. In fact, the size of electoral campaign handouts was too big even for these numbers.

COMMENTARY

What kind of Europe? Although elections for the European Parliament are just nine days away, Greece has yet to initiate a debate on the big issues facing the EU. A discussion of these is urgently needed as the integration process appears to have become bogged down by national priorities. Moreover, efforts at greater political and security independence from America have been stymied because of opposition from the US (and its footholds in the bloc) as well as European hesitation.

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