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Olympic venues ‘badly planned’

State officials admit that lack of preparation and vision has led to expensive sites sitting idle

A lack of proper planning and foresight has resulted in many of the expensive sport venues built for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games sitting idle, officials admitted yesterday at a seminar organized by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).

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PM not able to shake scandals

Although he was in Prague yesterday to attend a landmark meeting between the European Union and six former Soviet republics, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis could not escape...

Aid groups stick up for migrants

The aid group Doctors of the World said yesterday that it would set up a mobile unit on the run-down premises of the old Athens appeals court building on Socratous Street...

‘Going green can create jobs’

At a time when thousands of jobs are being lost in Greece each month, environmentalists believe that the country could create more than 150,000 employment opportunities...

Forget swine flu and eat pork, Greeks told

Veterinarians assured Greeks yesterday that it is safe to eat pork, as the government said it was «inexcusable» for people to avoid the meat...

IN BRIEF

Operation to pump fuel out of wreck to start next week : A long-delayed operation to pump thousands of tons of fuel out of the sunken cruise ship...

Veteran Spatharis in hospital : Evgenios Spatharis, an 85-year-old veteran of the traditional Greek shadow-puppet theater...

Murder-suicide : A 70-year-old man who hit his 56-year-old wife on the head and body with a plank of wood...

Panteleimon appeal : The jailed ex-bishop of Attica, Panteleimon, yesterday lodged an appeal with the European Court of Justice...

Arson attacks : Unidentified assailants staged to two in the Cretan port...

Judge disbarred : Ioannis Karabelas, a court of first instance judge, was disbarred...

Taverna fire : A fire that broke out in a taverna in Thessaloniki late on Wednesday...

Drug haul : Police in the Peloponnesian town of Kalamata were questioning...


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Athens University... Posters heralding student elections, in the colors of the political parties...

EDITORIAL

Settling debts the right way The settling of outstanding debts with IKA, the country's main social security fund, as well as other funds, which is currently planned by the conservative government, should by no means be open to enterprises that have systematically broken the law by refusing to make the requisite contributions.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

A torturous proces The wrongs or rights of torture have been the subject of much debate over the past few days. But sometimes it does not take a person being shackled, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and then «waterboarded» to feel that they are being tortured. The last few weeks, which have seen a series of political/economic scandals reappear or come to the boil, have been a form of very uniquely Greek torture.

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