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Bill for Games rises Finance Ministry now estimates cost at 7.5 billion euros

The cost of the Athens Olympics has been revised upwards to at least 7.5 billion euros, Finance Ministry sources told Kathimerini.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Murder, riots follow Greek soccer defeat
An Albanian man was stabbed to death and several more were injured during ugly after-dark brawls in Greece...
Over 1,800 police guard VIPs
Despite government pledges to slash the number of police bodyguards assigned to politicians, businesspeople, celebrity journalists and other people officially held to merit such protection, over 1,800 officers still have such duties, according to a confidential list obtained by Kathimerini.
Polls hail Olympics as success
Greeks were overwhelmingly pleased with the Athens Olympics, according to two newspaper polls released this weekend.
Greek among Beslan dead
The body of an elderly ethnic Greek teacher was identified on Saturday among the hundreds of dead left behind after Friday's massacre in a Russian school where pro-Chechen terrorists were holding over 1,000 hostages.
Police stop extremist protest at Patriarchate
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Police used pepper gas and batons yesterday against up to 1,000 Turkish ultra-nationalists protesting against Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the Istanbul-based head of the world's Orthodox Christians.
IN BRIEF
Reception center pledged in Evros : A regional reception center for illegal immigrants is to be established near the border village of Filakio in Evros...
Riding death : A four-year-old boy was fatally injured yesterday after being dragged more than 100 meters by a donkey...
Athens fire : Three thousand square metres of pine forest were burnt during a blaze in the Kokinara...
Regatta postponed : The launch of the annual Aegean Regatta has been postponed until tomorrow due to strong winds...
THIS WEEK
MONDAY : PASOK leader George Papandreou visits Thessaloniki...
TUESDAY : General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) meets to discuss issues concerning labor market...
THURSDAY : Paralympic Torch to be lit. The flame will pass through 54 municipalities...
FRIDAY : Civil Servants' Federation (ADEDY) convenes to decide strike action...
SATURDAY : Thessaloniki International Trade Fair opens at the Helexpo fairground...
SUNDAY : Paralympic Torch relay visits regions of Markopoulo, Paeania and Spata...


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EDITORIAL
Celebrity bodyguards
An editorial in these pages last year noted that despite the clampdown on the main domestic terrorist groups, a disproportionately large number of police officers were assigned to protecting individuals and buildings. A year on, and despite the fact that the emergency security demands of the Athens Olympic Games stipulated the reallocation of police officers assigned to carry out all sorts of tasks unrelated to their profession, those persons entitled to guards have reacted to the possibility of their being deprived of police protection...
COMMENTARY
Pragmatism, at last
With the end of the Olympic extravaganza, the spotlight is shifting back onto Greece's foreign policy, a policy area which represented a major challenge to the government from its first days in office in March. Over the past eight years, the Simitis government labored under a perceived need to revive the basic components of his predecessor Andreas Papandreou's foreign policy; this led to a rush to quickly and simultaneously settle all outstanding issues.
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