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Two dead, 18 injured in Serres railway accident Two people were killed near the city of Serres, northern Greece, yesterday and 18 were injured when a train smashed into a vehicle attempting to traverse an unauthorized crossing in the third fatal train accident this month.

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Bird flu cases rise as farmers come under scrutiny

Two more cases of deadly bird flu were confirmed yesterday in wild swans found in Greece, taking the total to six, as authorities slapped a heavy fine on a poultry farmer...

Hopes mount for Parnitha

The Mount Parnitha National Park, north of Athens, may be divided into zones offering graded levels of protection so that its forestland and natural beauty can be preserved...

More evidence in suicide case

The prosecutor investigating the alleged suicide of Costas Tsalikidis will ask experts to examine six notebooks which were kept by the software engineer...

Fatalities on Greek roads dip

The number of people dying on Greece's roads fell last year for the seventh year in succession but the figure is still high, according to the traffic police, which said yesterday...

Migrants rescued after boat burns off Samos

The coast guard rescued 18 illegal immigrants yesterday after their boat caught fire off the Aegean island of Samos, authorities said.

IN BRIEF

Karamanlis returns from trip to Dublin after meeting with Irish PM : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis met yesterday with his Irish counterpart...

Athens to protest EU's tip to use 'Macedonia' in dealings with FYROM : Foreign Ministry spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos said yesterday...

1.9 pct of 2005 applicants got asylum : Greece granted asylum to 1.9 percent of the refugees who applied...

OA flights : Transport Minister Michalis Liapis said yesterday that the Olympic Airlines routes...

Victim remembrance : New legislation making January 3 a national day of remembrance for victims...

Athens mayor : The Athens municipal council will meet next Thursday to elect...

Bank strike : Bank employees will be holding a 24-hour strike today in protest...

Stowaways stopped : A 24-year-old truckdriver was arrested by coast guard...

Bomb threat : An unidentified man called Mega television station yesterday and said...

Court battles : The European Commission referred Greece to the European Court of Justice...


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EDITORIAL

Counterincentives for tax dodgers There is no better proof of a tax system's bankruptcy than tax dodging, especially when this becomes as outrageously evident as it is here in Greece. The figures cited yesterday by Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis underscore the size of the social injustice inflicted by tax dodgers. The average income for pensioners stands at 8,898 euros annually, while average income is 5,212 euros per year for bar owners and 8,154 for restaurant owners.

COMMENTARY

Democracy by inheritance One would have needed a really warped outlook in the 1960s to imagine that in 2006 the nephew of Constantine Karamanlis would be prime minister, George Papandreou's grandson the opposition leader, while the daughter of Constantine Mitsotakis would hold the Foreign Affairs portfolio. Despite the pervasive effect of television democracy, the primordial prestige of political dynasties remains strong, eating away at the foundations of our representative democracy.

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