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Vote on arms probe Parliament debates government proposal for investigation Parliament debated yesterday ahead of a midnight vote on the scope and makeup of a committee to probe arms deals by two former defense ministers.

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State agency blocks permit for company

Just six days after Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis used strong words to assert that five - unnamed - businessmen had acquired unduly high political clout...

Survey plots poverty patterns

About one in five Greeks lives under the poverty line, while some 8 percent of the population survives on less than 10.50 euros a day, according to the results of a large nationwide survey made public yesterday.

4 charged with bank vault theft

Two employees at the Kalamata branch of the Bank of Greece, from whose vault 5.9 million euros went missing last week, were charged yesterday with masterminding the theft.

Police faulted over complaints

Only a tiny minority of citizens' complaints regarding alleged police violence or abuse of power are satisfactorily investigated by the force, the state Ombudsman noted in a report made public yesterday.

Frisky Greeks second in lovemaking poll

Greeks are the second most sexually active people in the world, says an Internet survey published yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Turkish jets fly over eastern islet, chased off by Greek fighters : Five formations of Turkish fighter jets yesterday violated Greek national air space...

Government announces plans to achieve 50 percent reduction by 2010 : Transport Minister Michalis Liapis yesterday heralded an overhaul of the highway code...

Minister says jail conditions fine : Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras yesterday rejected protests...

Migrant center : The Interior Ministry will fund the construction of a new reception center on Samos...

Gastroenteritis : About 260 residents of Nafpaktos have been diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis...

Fewer drownings : The number of drownings in Greek waters dropped by a third...

Cocaine suspect : A 40-year-old Greek, believed to be the head of a major cocaine smuggling gang...

Tax probe : The Council of Misdemeanors Court Judges yesterday asked to lift confidentiality...

Salonica mugger : A motorcycle-borne mugger has robbed dozens of couples in Thessaloniki's Seikh Sou Forest...


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EDITORIAL

A social bane A fifth of the Greek population lives on an income beneath the poverty line, namely 60 percent of the average wage. That is the basic conclusion of a survey based on a sample of 10,930 households that was conducted according to Eurostat rules in 2003 by the National Statistics Service (NSS) and the National Center for Social Research (EKKE).

COMMENTARY

Conflicting interests Citing «conflicting business interests,» PASOK has twice in the last 20 years (under Andreas Papandreou and Costas Simitis) ignored accusations of corruption, with the result that the country's political life has been at immediate risk of being run by extra-institutional «godfathers.» A similar attempt is now being made - fortunately without political backing - by certain entangled interests ahead of the government's first legislative moves to stamp out corruption. Here one needs to consider what is meant by the words «conflicting business interests.»

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