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Key scandal testimonies Yiossakis, Kaloussis to testify on alleged trial-fixing ring; Vavilis charged

As churches all over the country yesterday held vigils to pray for an end to the corruption and sex scandals bedeviling the Church of Greece, two key suspects are scheduled to testify today in connection with the trial-fixing allegations that opened a Pandora's box of lurid claims regarding senior judges and churchmen.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Reforms but no reshuffle, PM says
In a key speech on the occasion of his government's first year in office...
Proposals for former royal estate
Charging that, over two years after the state won control of the former royal estate at Tatoi...
Ex-worker takes mayor hostage
A laid-off municipal worker in northwestern Greece yesterday held the mayor of his village and eight of his former colleagues at gunpoint...
Party snub to Church over oath
In a protest against the swearing-in of Greece's new president by the head of the scandal...
Students march past Syntagma Square...
Students march past Syntagma Square in central Athens, during a demonstration yesterday...
Officer caught in the act of freeing detainee
An officer serving in a central Athens police station was arrested by his colleagues...
IN BRIEF
Cleric to face Spanish court on charges of molesting a minor : A 58-year-old Greek priest, charged with sexually molesting a minor in Barcelona...
Suspect blames wife for grisly murder : A 32-year-old Lesvos man was yesterday remanded in custody...
Cyprus talks : The leader of Cyprus's Communist party AKEL, Dimitris Christofias, and Turkish-Cypriot administration leader...
Hospital strike : State hospitals across the country will be operating on skeleton staff tomorrow...
Sultan's heirs : Descendants of the last Turkish Sultan, Abdul Hamit, are planning to sell off expanses of land...
Fugitive detained : A 37-year-old Swedish national of Bosnian-Serb descent, wanted by authorities...
Greek-German ties : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is to meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...
Rhodes probe : A Rhodes prosecutor yesterday ordered an urgent investigation...

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EDITORIAL
Budget rules under pressure
 Ever since the European Union's notorious Stability and Growth Pact was first proposed, it has met with fierce resistance from a minority of European elites. Critics said the pact, designed to keep the euro stable, would choke off the economies of the old Continent; and developments appear to have vindicated many of their concerns. As ever, no policy seems capable of promoting one goal...
COMMENTARY
End of the honeymoon
 When the opposition rages about the government's poor showing in its first year, ruling officials cite two extenuating circumstances: First, its obligation to host last summer's Athens Olympics - a huge event that was mired in numerous project delays - and second, the disclosure of mammoth budget deficits that dictated a policy readjustment. The first year is generally the most crucial in a government's four-year tenure, given high expectations that it will exploit its fresh mandate...
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