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Turkey gets a date for EU talks After lengthy haggling, Ankara agrees to sign customs deal with 10 new states by October 3 Following intense haggling in Brussels yesterday, European Union leaders gave Turkey an October 3, 2005 date for the launch of open-ended accession talks - which, however, will offer Ankara no guaranteed outcome. The fiercest negotiations concerned Turkey's relations with EU member Cyprus, which Turkey invaded in 1974. It still occupies a third of the island. Under strong pressure to offer some form of diplomatic recognition on the spot - even in a roundabout way - to Cyprus, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused steadfastly, threatening at one point yesterday to abandon the talks.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Billions of drachmas still flow in

Almost three years after the country adopted the euro, the Bank of Greece has been exchanging up to 25 million drachmas (73,000 euros) worth of banknotes into the new currency on a daily basis, an official said yesterday.

Pile of cash disappears on ferry

An investigation has been launched into how sacks containing some 400,000 euros went missing from an armored truck while it was aboard a ferry traveling from the mainland to the island of Thasos, harbor authorities said yesterday.

Testimonies on arms deals end

Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos yesterday blasted as «unacceptable and harmful» his predecessors' arms procurement deals that a parliamentary committee is probing.

IAAF to rule ‘in a few days’ on two sprinters

Disgraced sprint duo Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have submitted written explanations over charges they dodged doping tests in the runup to the Athens 2004 Games, international athletics authorities said yesterday, adding that a ruling is due within days.

IN BRIEF

Stores open tomorrow as market checks grow ahead of Christmas : Shops will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m tomorrow...

Eight in the dock for collapse of Nea Philadelphia building : The trial of eight people accused of being responsible for the collapse of an apartment block...

More frequent services : There will be more buses, trolleys, trams, and metro and overground trains...

Weather warning : There will be heavy rain and storms around the country this weekend...

McDonald's robbery : Two hooded, armed men held up a McDonald's restaurant in Kolonos...

Stabbing : A 45-year-old unemployed drug addict was found stabbed to death yesterday...

Turkish violations : Four formations of Turkish fighter jets flew over the Aegean yesterday...

Plane decompression : A Boeing 737, belonging to Helios Airways and flying from Warsaw to Larnaca...

Zouzou Nikoloudi : Choreographer has died at the age of 87...


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The EU and Turkey The way in which Ankara officials bargained during the two-day Brussels summit is an indication of Turkish intentions, and the Europeans ought to take the signs into serious consideration. It is not just the arrogant statements voiced by Turkish officials. More importantly, it is Ankara's demand to start down the path of EU membership on its own terms and not be subject to the conditions that have applied to all previous candidates.

COMMENTARY

The ark of knowledge Those who still lament the destruction of the library of Alexandria, with its treasure of ancient Greek knowledge, were in for good news this past week when Google, the search engine, announced an agreement with some of the world's greatest libraries to digitize their contents and make them available online. Google already provides the contents of 8 billion pages, but it is precisely this inconceivable plethora of information that is as much a curse as a blessing of the Internet.

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