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Bid to break logjam Privatization, tax reform, development law aim to stimulate economy In an effort to break the logjam in the economy, the government yesterday introduced a new privatization package, saying that it would sell shares in state-controlled companies such as Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) and the postal service (ELTA).

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OA funding above board, minister says

Greece yesterday denied that Olympic Airways, the national carrier, had received illegal aid from the government, one day after the European Commission opened a formal investigation that could lead to the end of the struggling airline.

Athens awash in rubbish for fourth day

Three days after a court decreed a strike by Athens rubbish collectors illegal, the capital's malodorous garbage mounds continued to grow...

Schoolboy hanging mystery

The family of an Albanian schoolboy found hanged in a small village in central Greece early on Wednesday yesterday dismissed the official suicide verdict, claiming they had received threatening phone calls a few days before his death.

PM: We’re working hard against terror

Prime Minister Costas Simitis appeared uncharacteristically upbeat yesterday that Greece might make progress in its fight against domestic terrorism...

Soccer boss: Turkey’s Cyprus play is offside

The much-lauded joint bid by Greece and Turkey to host the 2008 European soccer championship appeared headed for more trouble when the president of the Greek Soccer Federation (EPO) reacted angrily to Turkish demands...

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Cyprus bans advertising of tobacco products A complete ban on the advertising of tobacco products was announced yesterday...

2004 organizers step up program for subletting of Athens flats : Greece will rush forward procedures to allow thousands of Athenians to sublet their flats to visitors...

Trial set for next month A group of 14 British and Dutch plane-spotters accused of espionage will stand trial on misdemeanor charges...

Patriarch meets Bush. Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios was in Boston yesterday, continuing his six-day visit to the USA...

Walkway woes. Residents of the central Athens district of Thiseion yesterday appealed to the Council of State to block...

Antiquities. Police in the western town of Agrinio yesterday arrested the owner of a bulldozing equipment firm...

Wife murdered. An Albanian man who threatened to commit suicide after stabbing his wife to death on Wednesday...

Afghan brawl. Two Afghan immigrants have been hospitalized with serious injuries following a fierce brawl...


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EDITORIAL

A pet transgression The bill presented by Public Works Minister Vasso Papandreou yesterday was the third attempt to reach a legal framework for the transfer of building rights. The bill followed two decisions by the Council of State, which ruled that previous legislation on the issue was unconstitutional. The issue of the transfer of building rights has remained unresolved for 23 years and has become the building trade's favorite transgression...

COMMENTARY

The Greek minority When, on the eve of the 1992 elections, the Albanian government banned Omonia, the Greek ethnic party, from the vote, its leaders established the Union of Human Rights Party (KEAD) as a symbolic group purporting to represent the ethnic Greek population and those who have a Greek conscience. Vassilis Melos, who was then appointed KEAD president, might have lacked significant political character but proved to be very effective in intrigue.

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