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 Jerusalem uproar |
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The Foreign Ministry yesterday stepped into the looming scandal regarding the alleged secret sale, by the Orthodox Patriarchate...
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| PM defends tender law |
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| Ahead of this week's crucial meetings in Brussels on Greece's controversial new law banning media barons from lucrative state contracts, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Saturday pledged to pursue his keystone anti-corruption policies, while accusing the opposition of seeking to undermine the effort.
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| Court backs rebel monks’ ouster |
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| Greece's highest administrative court has rejected an appeal by a rebel Mount Athos abbot against an order, by the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, for his eviction from the 1,000-year-old Esphigmenou Monastery.
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| Boy, 15, caught for child porn |
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| A 15-year-old boy from Athens is to be charged with possessing computer software containing images of child pornography and distributing it over the Internet, police said on Saturday.
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The shadows of protesters appear on banners with anti-war signs during a peace rally in Athens on Saturday, held to commemorate the second anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
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President Karolos Papoulias...
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EDITORIAL |
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Fighting corruption
Corruption, which has persistently bled Greece's body politic, has recently come to the attention of international organizations and commentators. A European representative of Transparency International, a watchdog, recently took note of the corruption-related problems besetting our country, even while noting some improvement in the situation.
In a recent article titled «Costas's Crusade,» The Economist magazine reported on the conservative government's anti-graft campaign. |
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COMMENTARY |
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The EU and national sovereignty
Before the general elections and his becoming prime minister, conservative leader Costas Karamanlis vowed to launch a state tender bill in a bid to bar media owners from securing lucrative state contracts. It matters little whether this was a sound move, even if the overwhelming majority of the public seems to think so. There is also no point in trying to assess the ability of the conservative ministers who actually drafted the legislation.
It is vital, on the other hand, that a clear government policy... |
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