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Archbishop, pope call for tolerance Pact to mend ties signed at Vatican Archbishop Christodoulos and Pope Benedict XVI, after a landmark meeting at the Vatican yesterday, issued a joint appeal against religious fanaticism and violence, and pledged to pursue «the difficult path of dialogue» in order to heal a centuries-old rift between their two churches.

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Vodafone fined 76 mln euros

The privacy watchdog investigating the phone-tapping scandal yesterday fined mobile-phone company Vodafone -76 million for its conduct in connection...

Residents oppose new dumps

Residents in eastern Attica's Keratea and Grammatiko districts are preparing to start protest action against government plans to build two landfills in the areas...

Woman steals baby for sale

A Polish woman who was about to buy a Romanian teenager's six-month-old daughter snatched the infant from its mother...

Prison for driver who hit teens

A 22-year-old driver was given a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence yesterday after being found guilty of running over three schoolchildren...

Gang pays drug users to help in major scam

A gang used 12 drug addicts to set up tens of companies in Thessaloniki which acted as fronts to swindle the state and banks out of some 1.6 million euros...

IN BRIEF

Karamanlis extols 'positive message' from Bulgaria and Romania : In a comment aimed at Turkey, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said...

Group of 15 throws Molotov cocktails at police station in Papagou : A group of some 15 people on motorcycles threw Molotov cocktails...

Annual tickets for 2007 on sale now : Commuters can now buy annual passes for public transport at the Syntagma...

Ferry doctors : Twenty doctors are to be recruited to serve on passenger ferries...

Unclaimed passports : About 21,000 new passports remain at police stations...

Thessaloniki explosions : Assailants placed explosive devices made of camping gas canisters...

Murder solved : Police in Thessaloniki said they are looking for four Albanian men...

Supermarket fined : A Carrefour-Marinopoulos supermarket in Rendi...

Internet scam : A 26-year-old Polish man has been arrested in Thessaloniki...

Inside job? : A 33-year-old man was arrested in Athens yesterday...


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EDITORIAL

The state is bad at business The privatization of OTE, Greece's telecoms giant, has put forward the question of the state's role in modern times. If experience is any guide, the state makes a bad businessman. For that reason, it cannot and should not produce and sell anything, be it bed sheets or telecommunication services. In the words of late US economist Milton Friedman: «If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.»

COMMENTARY

Our digital future Some 2.5 million Greeks are said to use the Internet for business or pleasure. Studies show that the vast majority of the working population surfs the Web on a daily basis to deal with banks or public utilities, to shop, gain access to information, for entertainment or to express themselves - even for gambling. The profile of the average user is young and educated. But this transition into the new age comes with a hefty price tag. Greeks pay the highest Internet rates.

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