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 Plans laid out for ‘new’ Olympic Air |
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| The government hopes private investors will be interested in a majority stake in a new Olympic Airways, trimmed down to its core operations and freed of its crushing debt.
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| Privatizations speeded up |
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| Economy and Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis said, after meeting Prime Minister Costas Simitis yesterday, that privatizations and structural reforms must be accelerated if Greece wants to become more competitive.
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| Spectator injured at test event |
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| A spectator, attending one of last week's Olympic test events at the restored ancient stadium in Athens where the first modern Games were staged in 1896, is in the hospital after being injured last week inside a fenced-off part of the venue, 2004 organizers admitted yesterday.
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| 128 exiles have visited Greece |
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| Nearly 130 native Greek civil war exiles, resident in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, have visited Greece over the past eight days, after a decades-old ban on their return was temporarily lifted.
Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Loverdos said a total of 128 beneficiaries of the measure had entered the country between August 10 and yesterday afternoon.
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| Athens holds out for olive, ouzo copyright |
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| BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union failed yesterday to reach agreement on a list of food and drinks the names of which should be protected in global markets, such as Champagne or Parma.
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