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Greece may dodge deficit humiliation Commission report tomorrow The European Commission will tomorrow make public its conclusions that Greece's plans to reduce its deficit, as set out in the 2005 budget, are insufficient but will not go as far as asking the government to start providing regular progress reports, sources told Kathimerini yesterday. The Commission's report follows the recent review of Greek public finances that revealed Greece's public deficit for every year from 1997 to 2003, inclusive, to be over the 3 percent of GDP ceiling for eurozone members.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Dancers in the National Opera Ballet’s ‘Snow Queen’...

Dancers in the National Opera Ballet's 'Snow Queen' take their bows during yesterday's performance.

PM sees no new plan on Cyprus

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis played down fears, reiterated by Nicosia yesterday, that the United Nations peace blueprint rejected by Greek Cypriots in April could be revived and linked with Turkey's European Union accession talks.

Landmark ruling favors investors

In a landmark ruling made public yesterday, an Athens court found in favor of two investors who lost nearly 200,000 euros...

Killer left a hot trail behind

A Thessaloniki man has confessed to murdering his pregnant girlfriend, chopping off her head and hands...

Games’ doping charges roll in

A Greek weightlifter who lost his bronze medal in the Athens Olympics after testing positive for unnaturally high testosterone levels...

Housepainters regret ‘stupid’ bus hijacking

The two 24-year-old Albanians who hijacked a KTEL bus outside Athens last week...

IN BRIEF

Emergency teams try to reopen Xanthi road after thousands cut off : Groups of engineers were yesterday trying to restore the road running...

European court slams Greece over police firearms use : The European Court of Human Rights yesterday condemned Greece for failing...

Mild conditions for festive period : The weather around the country for the rest of this week and on Christmas Day...

Murder hunt : Police said yesterday they were looking for the murderer of an 88-year-old man...

Media bill : The government tabled in Parliament yesterday a new draft law designed...

Roadworks :Traffic in both directions on a stretch of Kifissos Avenue will be disrupted...

Armed robbery : Three armed robbers held up a gas station along the old national road...

Child abuse? : A 30-year-old man was arrested in Kolonos, western central Athens...

Student transfers : All details of the transfer of students at universities and technical colleges...


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EDITORIAL

Fighting poverty The tabling of the budget is almost invariably accompanied by heated debate. Members of Parliament are more than willing to indulge in fierce battles with each other over macroeconomic indicators.

COMMENTARY

Destination uncertain War rarely leads to triumph (the US won the Iraq war but only in the short term, while taking a battering on the moral front); this is also true of diplomacy. Last week's EU summit reminded us of this fact. It also reminded us that every government has the right to triumphalism just as the opposition has to see disasters all around...

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