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Mergers for local gov’t Ministry preparing to slash number of municipalities, prefectures

The Interior Ministry is making preparations to slash Greece's municipalities and prefectures by more than 60 percent in a bid to improve their efficiency and flexibility within the framework of a plan based on similar European models, according to government sources.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
PASOK rivals outline strategies
PASOK leader George Papandreou and his main challenger for the party leadership, Evangelos Venizelos, set out...
Turkey blamed for migrants
Greece believes that problems related to the large number of illegal immigrants entering the country can be solved...
Shock win for new arrival
Newly promoted Asteras Tripolis, a rapid climber up the country's soccer divisions in recent seasons, stunned...
Diver dies in wreck operation
A 44-year-old diver monitoring pollution from a sunken cruise ship off the island of Santorini died on Saturday...
Prokopis Pavlopoulos...
Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos (right) on Saturday visited...
Hunter kills man in shooting accident
A hunter shot and killed a man he mistook for a wild boar on a hunting trip near Tripolis, in the Peloponnese...
IN BRIEF
Thieves take 60,000 euros from driver in Aegaleo heist : Two armed men stole 60,000 euros in cash from a driver on Saturday...
Mild tremor hits Kyparissia : An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale shook the Peloponnese peninsula of Kyparissia...
Sex ring : Police yesterday arrested four suspected members of a sex trafficking ring...
Firebomb attack : Suspected anarchists hurled petrol bombs at a building...
Disease concerns : A 46-year-old man in Greece has died from complications...
THIS WEEK
Monday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to meet with French Agriculture Minister...
Tuesday : The municipal worker's union POE-OTA meets to discuss...
Wednesday : The national council of the municipal worker's union POE-OTA convenes...
Thursday : The University of Athens in co-operation with the Greek Institute of Administrative Sciences hosts...
Saturday : Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Hospital hosts a conference...

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EDITORIAL
Need for efficient governance
 Despite coming rather late, the recent initiative of the Interior Ministry to reduce the number of regions, prefectures and municipalities in the country is a significant step. The government has an obligation to its citizens to quickly push through these ambitious reforms, which will cut the number of regions from 13 to six, of prefectures from 52 to 16 and of municipalities from 1,034 to 400 - bringing the Greek system closer to the European model.
COMMENATRY
Taxing the public’s limits
 Unless the government does an about-turn, in a few days' time an unsuspecting public will become part of a massive and unprecedented experiment that will test the great structures of modern Greek society - the government, the state, petroleum companies and the banking system - as well as the patience and endurance of citizens.
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