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More rooms, no cars That is what the government would like to see for the 2004 Games With accommodation and transportation shaping up as the foremost problem-areas in the preparation of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the government is prepared to provide tax incentives to private citizens for subletting their apartments to visitors during the Olympics...

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Patriarch presses Powell over Halki

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios met yesterday with Secretary of State Colin Powell at the start of an official visit to the United States.

Pension talks begin in fog of good will

The dialogue on social security reform began yesterday with the government presenting labor and employers' federations with a set of principles and guidelines, but not explaining key points as to how the system will meet the stated objective of functioning autonomously and not running out of money.

Industry blasts CD pirates

Greece's recording industry loses over 205 million euros a year to CD pirates, according to the Union of Greek Record Producers who are holding a seminar on the problem today under the aegis of the Public Order Ministry.

Questions over Skopje’s terror claims

THESSALONIKI - Controversy surrounds an announcement by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's Interior Ministry that its special forces on Saturday shot seven foreign members of a terrorist organization who were allegedly planning to attack the US, German and British embassies in the capital, Skopje.

Athens: EU force must not give Turks a say

On a visit to Berlin yesterday, Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou stressed that Greece would not agree to a deal in which Turkey has a say in how the EU's nascent defense force operates.

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No news for 24 hours as journalists protest Radio and television stations are not broadcasting newscasts today and there will be no newspapers tomorrow...

380 BC panels depicting Odysseus are cracked at Berlin exhibition : A 2,500-year-old stone frieze loaned by an Austrian museum for an exhibition of ancient Greek art in Berlin...

4.8 Richter tremor in Thrace An earthquake registering 4.8 on the Richter scale was felt throughout the northern region of Thrace...

See no evil? Prime Minister Costas Simitis, on a visit to Japan, expressed skepticism at US President...

Athens Bar Association. National Bank lawyer Dimitris Paxinos, 53, who ran for the post without official party backing despite...

Street-cleaners. Athens municipal street-cleaners and rubbish collectors will press on with rolling 48-hour strikes...

Fire death. The owner of a carnival outfit warehouse in the northern Athens district of Nea Kifissia was burned to death...

Refugee awareness. A European Union-funded initiative to sensitize the public to the plight of refugees by publishing and broadcasting...

Single parents. Euro MP Anna Karamanou yesterday asked the government to improve the situation of single-parent families...


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EDITORIAL

Upturn The conclusion yesterday by the EU ministers for economic affairs and finance (Ecofin) that the European economy is following the upward trend of the USA, reinforces the view that the Continent will be able to achieve needed progress in the area of employment, where it has long lagged behind the Americans.

COMMENTARY

The lawyers’ signal The results of the Athens Bar Association elections were the most ominous political message Prime Minister Costas Simitis has yet received during the six years of his premiership. The country's foremost professional association cast its votes according to clearly political criteria, rejecting not only the PASOK government but also the nascent formations which aim to create new «democratic fronts against the right.»

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