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Tougher rules are being lined up for phone companies PM to push on Monday for big fines if firms do not protect caller privacy The prime minister is preparing to toughen the measures against telephony companies that do not protect their customers' privacy following the political turmoil created by the tapping of government mobile phones, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.

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Figures confirm chilly fears

Suspicions that winters have been gradually getting colder in Greece were confirmed by data released yesterday that showed that temperatures last month were among the lowest recorded in January in the last 100 years.

Officials ask for calm but stay on alert for bird flu

Authorities in northern Greece yesterday intensified inspections on regional poultry farms after the H5 strain of bird flu was detected...

Yiossakis free of first charge

Former priest Iakovos Yiossakis and monk Kyrillos Stavropoulos were yesterday cleared of stealing antiquities from a monastery on Kythera in 1996.

Mild relief for waste problem

Partially treated sewage from a storage facility in the northern suburb of Metamorphosis will be treated at a plant in Greece, according to sources yesterday, as the Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company (EYDAP) looks for solutions to its waste management headache.

Lucky find reveals biggest ancient cave

A farmer in northern Greece has stumbled across a 2,300-year-old chiseled cave with eight chambers and measuring some 63 square meters - the biggest ever discovered in this country - it was revealed yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Seven drugs squad officers accused of keeping and selling narcotics : Seven members of a narcotics squad in Kilkis, northern Greece, were charged yesterday with possessing and selling drugs...

Bank teller says he saw Tselentis shoot police officer dead in 1984 : A third witness yesterday told a court hearing the appeal of members of the November 17 terrorist group...

25-year term for cigarette smuggling : Two brothers were each sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday by a court in Thessaloniki that found them guilty...

Photo award : Greek photographer Yiannis Kontos won an award yesterday in the 2005 World Press Photo competition...

Baby charges : A prosecutor has charged a female lawyer and two female relatives with premeditated murder...

Camera destroyed : A closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera in Dafni, southeastern Athens, used for monitoring traffic was set on fire...

Road closure : A section of Petrou Ralli Street in Athens will be closed off completely to traffic in both directions tomorrow...

Old school : Four in 10 Greek schools are more than 30 years old, a study by the Education Ministry made public yesterday has found...


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EDITORIAL

Spillover effects of liberalization Although everyone - from political parties to unions and employers' associations - agrees on the need to bolster economic growth, there are still a number of very concrete options that remain unexploited. A recent report by the Center for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) on the economic and social implications of the currently drafted EU directive on the deregulation of the European services market raises a number of interesting points.

COMMENTARY

The state’s lost dream A striking aspect of the phone-tapping scandal that has cast its shadow over the country's public life during the past two weeks is the disarray into which the state's mechanisms for monitoring and protecting the country have fallen - if they have not actually disintegrated.

OPINION

The failings of a hijacked state No one doubts that the phone-tapping scandal has made a mockery of the state... Moreover, it has served to demonstrate how difficult it can be to preserve national sovereignty and dignity. Perhaps, in the final analysis, most of us would prefer to be «in on the game.» This, however, is an unrealistic scenario because major «allies» such as the USA would find it difficult to trust the secret services of a state such as ours, which has been hijacked by political and business interests.

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