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Pensioners to be repaid But PM says process will take two-and-a-half years, starting in mid-2006 Under heavy fire over a top ministerial aide's last-minute retraction of a lawsuit expected to cost the state coffers some 800 million euros in payments to hundreds of thousands of pensioners, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis promised yesterday that the money would be paid anyway - starting in summer 2006.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Extended shop-hour plan icily received

Owners of shops and supermarkets joined with the private sector employees' federation yesterday in rubbishing new government plans...

Attica set to boom in next 5 years

Athens is to keep extending its boundaries, with construction activity on its fringes and beyond set to increase the capital region's size by up to 30 percent by 2010 while population figures skyrocket, according to studies made available to Kathimerini yesterday.

EU presses Turkey on Cyprus

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union urged Turkey yesterday to make good on a pledge to expand its customs agreement with the EU to include Cyprus - a condition for Union membership talks.

Athens 2004 denies deficit

The Athens 2004 Organizing Committee will «very soon» make public a full report on its finances...

Mayors’ help sought to restore illegal dumps

The government yesterday asked for the help of municipal authorities in the environmental restoration of illegal landfill sites...

IN BRIEF

Equality for university and technical college graduates 'unconstitutional' : The granting of equal professional rights to graduates of state technical colleges (TEIs) and universities...

Constitution 'violates European law' : Provisions in the Constitution, regarding the participation of media owners in state contracts, violate European law...

Anarchists object : An anarchist group yesterday condemned the December 31 murder of a police officer...

Taverna robbery : Armed robbers made off with 5,000 euros after raiding a taverna...

Inseparable : Two sisters, aged 88 and 87, died on Monday night within half an hour of each other...

Camera vandals : Unidentified vandals hurled a Molotov cocktail at a road surveillance camera...

Road works : Traffic will be disrupted on the underground section of Kifissias Avenue...

Nano : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and his visiting Albanian counterpart, Fatos Nano...

Murder appeal : The trial of two men convicted for the November 1997 murders...


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George Papandreou...
EDITORIAL

ND suffers the political cost Conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis finally had to intervene yesterday and actually give his personal commitment that the improperly levied social security contributions to the controversial LAFKA fund will be returned to pensioners in five six-month installments starting June 2006. The mere fact that the prime minister had to step into this otherwise mundane affair exposed many shortcomings in the government's coordination.

COMMENTARY

Do as I say A foreign diplomat who called Kathimerini recently was wondering about the pessimistic forecasts by Bank of Greece Governor Nicholas Garganas over the short-term prospects of the Greek economy. «Why did Garganas take such a grim view?» he asked. «In his previous report he was more reserved, while in the one before that he was cool and upbeat. Sure, other Europeans, with growth rates under 1.5 percent of the GDP and 12 percent unemployment, have little to envy in Greece...

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