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ND braced for PPC claims Gov’t officials seek legal advice ahead of Paleokrassas press conference The Prime Minister went on a weekend public relations offensive to defend his government's policies as it braced itself for further allegations today about corruption in the Public Power Corporation (PPC) from the former head of the state-controlled electricity firm.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Call for overhaul of legal system

Media coverage of an ongoing trial-fixing probe is giving the impression that Greece's entire judicial system is corrupt, prosecutors complained...

No time to waste on trash issue

The threat of a strike at Attica's only landfill has been averted and judges are set to decide this week whether to allow...

Onassis heiress weds in Brazil

Athina Roussel Onassis, the sole heiress to the billion-dollar fortune of late Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, on Saturday married...

Thousands struggle in poverty

One in four Greeks has trouble paying for basic needs and one in five lives below the poverty line...

A disabled woman...

A disabled woman who is a member of the Panhellenic Union of Paraplegics sits in a wheelchair...

Busy Greeks close the book on reading

Two in three Greeks admit to not reading a single book during the course of the entire year...

IN BRIEF

Immigrants living in Athens demand equal rights, especially for children : Hundreds of migrants gathered in front of Athens City Hall on Saturday...

Cyprus deadlock : Nicosia will not agree to re-open a commercial street running...

Grenade attack : A hand grenade thrown out of a moving car in the Thessaloniki district...

Journalist dies : Journalist Eleftheria Bri, 41, was killed in a car crash...

Soldier killed : A teenage British soldier stationed in Cyprus was killed early Saturday...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Valinakis visits Ljubljana to attend...

Tuesday : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis visits...

Wednesday : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis to attend meeting of NATO...

Thursday : New Democracy parliamentary group convenes...

Friday : PASOK leader George Papandreou to meet with representatives...


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EDITORIAL

Burden of DEKOs The financial information about public service companies (DEKOs) makes no mistake: The country's public utilities have transformed into debt-amassing mechanisms. In the past three years alone, these companies' debts have increased by 30 percent and it appears unlikely that anything will buck this trend. The combination of dubious financial management with a negative «social welfare policy» has provoked a ceaseless swelling of our debt.

COMMENTARY

Fat lady on democracy’s ladder Something is stirring in the Arab world. It may not be exactly what US President George W. Bush had in mind when he set out to spread democracy in the Middle East with the invasion of Iraq, but it appears that the risky act broke the deadlock in the region and set in motion a chain of events with an unpredictable outcome. The first and most obvious consequence is that...

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