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Graft threatens to dominate PM’s speech NAT chief resigns in minister scandal Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will take the podium at the Thessaloniki International Fair tonight, where he will deliver his annual policy speech, and attempt to distance himself from the scandals that have engulfed his party in recent weeks.

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Mt Parnitha slated for business park

The capital's first industrial park is to be built on the slopes of Mount Parnitha...

Village unites to foil robbers

Two bank robbers who raided a bank in central Greece yesterday soon found out that...

Bloggers go to Brussels for tips

A group of 50 Greek bloggers is due in Brussels today for talks with European Commission officials...

Greek postmen book delivers odd title prize

A 72-page British book recording Greece's postal routes...

IN BRIEF

Hearing into murder of soccer fan begins; 27 face charges : The trial of 27 people in connection with the murder...

Flags removed from 15 beaches : Fifteen Greek beaches have lost their blue flags...

Worker killed : A 52-year-old employee of the Moschato municipality in southern Athens was killed...

Boats bump : A yacht and a tourist boat collided...

Fatal fall : A 72-year-old woman missing since Wednesday...

Grim find : Staff from the psychiatric hospital of Tripolis, in central Greece, yesterday found...

Hash haul : Port Authority officials in Varkiza, southern Athens, yesterday confiscated...


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EDITORIAL

Attracting investment to Greece We shouldn't be surprised at the country's inability to attract foreign investment because Greece is expensive, suffers from low levels of productivity and is burdened by a vast, costly bureaucracy and rife corruption. We have the unique talent of combining all the defects of both an emerging and a mature market - because internal corruption is almost always associated with emerging Third World economies, while high labor and service costs are associated with those of the developed world. If Greece does not finally see that it needs to put an end to this vicious cycle, it will never be able to attract foreign investment nor, of course, will it ever achieve a competitive economy.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

A modern death cult For a people so much in love with life, it is astonishing to see how keenly the Greeks court death - and nowhere is this more evident than in the way they drive. Even though billions have been spent on road and other infrastructure projects since Greece joined the European Union in 1981, such is the quality of our roads and so great our recklessness that our country is still the EU's leader in road deaths. Our roads are the stage on which we strut and display every personal and collective weakness to the deadliest effect.

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