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EU opens up to Turkey Athens, Nicosia finally support deal after late talks that almost failed After more than 40 years of knocking on the door, Turkey edged closer to being let into the European Union yesterday as foreign ministers, including those of Greece and Cyprus, approved the framework that will guide the accession process between Ankara and the 25-member bloc.

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Ambitious budget to cut deficit to 2.8 pct

As the government tries to get back into Brussels's good books, it unveiled yesterday an ambitious draft plan of the 2006 budget that aims at lowering the deficit to below 3 percent for the first time in recent years.

As landfill workers strike, trash overflows

Workers at Attica's only landfill in Ano Liosia yesterday entered the second week of a strike which has closed the site to garbage trucks...

Cash guards hit during shootout

Two security guards were hospitalized yesterday after four would-be robbers opened fire on their cash-loaded vehicle with Kalashnikov assault rifles near a busy Athens junction, police said.

Tourism threatens rare turtles

The loggerhead turtle is being pushed to extinction due to the overdevelopment of a protected national marine park used by its nesting population on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, the conservationists WWF said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Cost of weekend bad weather is set to reach millions of euros : Authorities yesterday began calculating the damage that was caused to crops...

TV transmitters cause interference : The National Post and Telecommunications Commission (EETT) has called...

Chinese glue : The General State Laboratories yesterday called...

Crete shooting : Police officers prevented Giorgos Moraitakis from being lynched...

Traffic disruptions : Corinth-bound traffic on the Athens-Corinth national road will be...

Bus bargain : The Athens public bus company (ETHEL) yesterday handed...

Owner shot : The owner of a convenience store in Menidi, northwestern Athens, was shot...

Coffin capture : Thieves in Crete made off with an unusual loot yesterday...

Earring tests : The General Secretary for Consumers will be conducting...

Amnesty : International is to present today its annual report...


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The sun’s partial eclipse...
EDITORIAL

Zero tolerance on corruption Speaking at his New Democracy government's cabinet meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis took a hard line on corruption. «We will follow a zero-tolerance policy on corruption... The forces of complacency and inertia will not stop us. We are in a head-on collision with them... Enough is enough. I mean what I say,» the conservative leader said in an unusually outspoken fashion.

COMMENTARY

No Turkish delight for EU No other European Union candidacy has divided politicians and public opinion as much as Turkey's - probably because no one took it for granted. At the same time, no other applicant has acted as aggressively inside the waiting room. Whether because of strong national confidence or because of overt American and British backing, Ankara even went as far as to threaten the EU...

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