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Acropolis on course Major phase of facelift to be ready by next year, along with museum

A huge chunk of restoration work on Greece's most famous landmark, the Acropolis citadel, will be completed by the end of next year and the government will make whatever funds are necessary available for the project to be entirely complete by 2020, the deputy culture minister said yesterday.
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Lost land deal offers gov’t cash windfall
Public coffers are expected to get a boost of more than 1.5 billion euros if Parliament approves a draft law, to be submitted in September...
Greece to build on new economic diplomacy
After becoming the only Balkan country so far to join the European Union, Greece is now shifting its weight to economic diplomacy in an effort...
Salvage plan for disaster-struck lake
The prefecture of Thessaloniki has approved a 17-million-euro program to help clean up northern Greece's Lake Koroneia....
Advanced passports on the way
Greece will receive its first batch of new high-tech biometric passports at the beginning of next year, as part of the government's drive to fall in line with EU and worldwide anti-terrorism measures, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.
IN BRIEF
Record temperature sends levels of air pollutioiAthens soaring : The hottest day ithe capital so far this year...
Debate olabor reforms begins : MPs begadebating the government's draft law aimed...
EU rap : The EuropeaCommissioyesterday gave Greece two months to explaithree laws...
Party time : Bars, cafes and nightclubs iGreece's tourist areas will be allowed to open...
Sea search : Coast guard patrol boats were yesterday combing the waters near...
Trauma award : AAthens court yesterday awarded some 2 millioeuros idamages...
Arrested agai : Police arrested a mayesterday iconnectiowith sevearmed thefts committed...
Partial blackout : Aelectricity blackout othe island of Rhodes occurred yesterday...

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EDITORIAL
Rewarding illegality
 It is common knowledge that illegal practices are rife, in many different forms, in Greek public life. And the fact that such practices are flourishing is indisputable evidence of social and political underdevelopment. There can be no doubt that the only way to change this unacceptable situation is to enforce existing laws.
COMMENTARY
The buy of the century?
 The surface-to-air verbal missiles that PASOK fired at the government's new armaments program were off target. The Socialists' argument that the New Democracy government, by choosing the American F-16 over the European Eurofighter, has prioritized foreign policy criteria over technocratic or economic need is nothing new. Defense policy in all small countries...
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