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EDITORIAL |
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Rubbish and responsibilities
Fortunately enough, growing public furor and a prosecutor's intervention helped reason to prevail over political opportunism and awkward management. Municipal officials yesterday began removing the piles of trash that had accumulated on the streets of Athens over the past few days due to the closure of the Ano Liosia landfill. The breakthrough meeting under Athens prosecutor Dimitris Papangelopoulos... |
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COMMENTARY |
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Our rubbish, their dump
We live in a parliamentary democracy, not a society run by prosecutors. As a result, no problem - be that corruption, bribery or the ongoing garbage crisis - can or should be solved because of prosecutors' interventions and recommendations.
We should expect the government to be the authority on these issues, unless, of course, we also believe... |
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OPINION |
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Economic reform a one-way street
The government's policy of economic reforms has become something of a one-way street. As some of his close aides have confirmed, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is determined to progress swiftly and decisively in this direction, neither due to some political dogma nor in an effort to appear tough but because he is convinced... |
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