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 Brussels insists tender law must change |
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| Brushing aside remonstrations from Athens, the European Commission has decided to launch the second stage of the infringement process over Greece's controversial new law on state tenders, sources in Brussels said yesterday.
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| Tight rein on public spending |
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| Figures released yesterday showed that the government has begun to rein in public spending as it prepares to have its blueprint for the course of the economy until 2007 approved by EU finance ministers today.
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| Spotlight on prison deaths |
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| A senior Piraeus prosecutor yesterday ordered an in-depth investigation into the four suspected drugs deaths that occurred this year in Greece's largest prison.
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| Schoolboys hurt after big match |
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| A schoolboy was still being treated in hospital last night and another two were discharged after being seriously injured by a mob of some 50 soccer hooligans wielding iron bars and screwdrivers, following the top of the league clash between crosstown rivals Panathinaikos and Olympiakos hours earlier.
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| Convict, on furlough, caught for armed raid |
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| An inmate serving a life sentence in Corfu prison, who was on a weeklong furlough, has been arrested along with a Bulgarian in connection with the armed robbery of a postman in northern Greece last week, which netted 66,000 euros, police said yesterday.
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