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State tender bill passes with some alterations ‘Major’ media shareholders banned from public contracts

With partial backing from the two smaller left-wing parties in Parliament, the house's conservative majority passed a new law yesterday banning media barons from access to lucrative state contracts.
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Plan to meet summer energy demands
A range of measures to prevent power cuts this summer were unveiled by the government yesterday...
Bribe inquiry to check judges’ bank accounts
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the bank accounts of two middle-ranking judges suspected of accepting bribes to be checked and the part played by lawyers and middlemen in any corruption to be investigated.
Net-aided suicide probed
In the first investigation of its kind in Greece, police are questioning an army sergeant in Crete who allegedly assisted an Athenian teenager to commit suicide...
Five officers held for drugs
Police internal affairs detectives have arrested four members of the force and a coast guard officer on suspicion of drug-dealing...
Local antiquities...
Local antiquities director Vassilis Aravantinos (l) watches as conservator Ioanna Moraitou works in the Thebes museum on pots...
IN BRIEF
Cruise liner sets sail for Sri Lanka with medical staff, 800 tons of aid : A cruise liner carrying dozens of medical personnel and over 800 tons of humanitarian aid for tsunami victims is to set sail...
Protesters want green space in Goudi : The creation of a metropolitan park in Goudi is absolutely imperative...
Cyprus shrine : Turkish-Cypriot administration leader Mehmet Ali Talat, his aunt and other family members...
Hash haul : Customs officers on the Albanian border yesterday confiscated 506 kilos of cannabis...
Contract workers : The plenary session of the State Audit Council yesterday deemed unconstitutional the provisions of a 2002 law...
Online buildings : Details about thousands of listed buildings and traditional settlements across the country will soon be accessible...
Sea pollution : Keratsini coast guard on Wednesday spotted a 500-square-meter slick of waste...
Horses shot : Residents of Drama yesterday buried the corpses of four wild horses that had all been shot...

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EDITORIAL
Duty-roster system and vested interests
 Health Minister Nikitas Kaklamanis yesterday hit back at remarks aiming to discredit the clinics' new duty-roster system. «The ESY (the local acronym for Greece's National Health System) will become people-centered.
COMMENTARY
Hollow pretexts
 Prompted by rumors over the impending sale of the Pegasus media group, many complacent conservative political figures rushed to congratulate themselves on the success of the state tender bill. The breakdown of the talks may have left egg on the faces of government officials, but this does not change the fact that the new law intends to close any loopholes that allowed business people to sidestep the law.
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