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EU urges Greece to cut deficit and make up for past Alogoskoufis sets 2006 target for Euro compliance

EU officials yesterday urged Athens to take immediate action to reduce the public deficit but did not announce any penalties, despite confirmation that the figures on which Greece based its eurozone entry were wrong.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Court rules against public tender loophole
In a preliminary decision which further added to the turmoil in the controversial public works...
Shake-up in police structure
The Public Order Ministry yesterday announced a police shake-up intended to improve coordination...
Die is cast by Patras elite officer
A special forces police officer was arrested yesterday while playing backgammon in a cafeteria near Patras...
Wet actresses in mosque riot
Riot police were called in yesterday to quell a violent mob that attacked a television crew...
‘Admiring Ships in a Greek Harbor’...
A 19th century painting by celebrated Greek seascape artist Constantinos Volanakis (1837-1907)...
Robbers pose as cops in central Athens scam
A man was arrested in central Athens yesterday on suspicion of having posed as a plain-clothes...
IN BRIEF
Central Athens blocked from 2 p.m. for protest march to US Embassy : Much of central Athens will be closed from 2 p.m. today as thousands of policemen take up their positions...
Greek captain to return this week : The Greek captain of the sunken Prestige tanker, who was banned in late 2002 from leaving Spain...
Monopoly buster : Greece intends to bring its anti-monopoly measures in line with the EU...
Court hours : The Justice Ministry's general secretary Panayiotis Panouris yesterday refuted rumors...
Migrants intercepted : Coast guards on Kasos yesterday detained 62 illegal immigrants spotted aboard a fishing boat...
Road collision : Six people sustained minor injuries yesterday morning after a mobile cement mixer crashed into an intercity bus...
Salonica landfill : Residents of three eastern Thessaloniki municipalities, who blocked access to the Tagarades landfill yesterday...
Farmers protest : Farmers staged protests in central Greece yesterday, demanding the payment of state subsidies...

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EDITORIAL
Necessary upgrade
 As an instrument of the Development Ministry with responsibility for monitoring the enforcement of legislation to control oligopolies and protect competition, the Competition Commission has been an independent administrative authority since 1995 with considerable guarantees of independence. Since 2000, these have included its financial self-sufficiency.
COMMENTARY
Tales of fraud
 Some types of news have two peculiar features. First, they get recycled as often as governments get reshuffled. And second, they appear to reveal a shocking scandal, only to languish until its time comes once again to appear in the news. And so, once again, we have it from official lips that Greece is a country of disabled, and sometimes dearly departed, but forever subsidized farmers.
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