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Athens mulls pay-parking Municipality hopes to have system running in autumn; cell phone a must

Seven years after the last attempt to make the capital's notoriously unruly car drivers pay for parking in the city center came to grief, Athens municipal authorities are now hoping to have a new system operational by some time in the autumn, sources told Kathimerini.
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Fraud, tax evasion rampant in Attica
Checks on the accounting practices of companies in the Attica area over Christmas revealed that more than half of them were evading taxes, authorities told Kathimerini yesterday.
Rio ferries defy odds to thrive
Despite predictions that the opening of the 770-million-euro Rio-to-Antirio bridge in western Greece in August last year would signal the death knell for the car and passenger ferries working the route, an investigation by Kathimerini has revealed that the operators are actually thriving.
Gay wrath at fine on radio show
Greek gays yesterday condemned as racism and prudery a fine imposed on a small Athens radio station which forced a regular program for homosexuals off the air.
Bid to improve state education
Three of the country's main party leaders spoke at a conference at the Zappeion Hall in Athens yesterday...
Parties row over ‘porn actor’ in coast guard
A bizarre row broke out in Parliament yesterday over who was responsible for recalling to duty a 58-year-old coast guard who had been expelled from the service in 1978 and was suspected of having been a porn movie actor and the leader of a staunch right-wing royalist party.
IN BRIEF
Cruise liner sets sail for Sri Lanka with medical staff and tons of aid : A cruise liner carrying dozens of medical personnel and hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid for tsunami victims...
European court will quiz gov't over 'incompatible' provision, lawyer says : Former New Democracy MP Alexandros Lykourezos, a celebrity lawyer who resigned his parliamentary post...
Ministry, farmers in agreement : Agriculture Ministry officials yesterday agreed with unionists representing cotton farmers...
Toy threat : State inspectors have confiscated 40 toy laser guns with plastic pellets on sale in Greece...
Indebted traders : Traders with outstanding debts should only be liable for imprisonment if it is proven that they have been concealing assets...
Lycabettus corpse : The corpse of a man identified as Vassilis Sioutis, 31, was found by a stroller yesterday...
Patissia murder : Police said yesterday that whoever was responsible for the murder of a 79-year-old woman...
Armed robberies : Attica police reported three yesterday, two in Dafni and one in Galatsi...
Priest defrocked : The Catholic Church has defrocked the Irish-born priest who disrupted the men's Olympic marathon...

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EDITORIAL
Joining hands on education reform
 The public and unreserved acknowledgment by both conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Socialist opposition leader George Papandreou of the need for a common platform to tackle the chronic problems plaguing our national education system is itself a sign of significant progress. Most people realize that education quality is the main factor that determines a nation's role in the global division of labor and, by extension, its standing in the international community.
COMMENTARY
Democracy and its enemies
 Next Sunday's elections in Iraq are turning into the biggest battle of the American invasion. At stake are Iraq's future and US President George W. Bush's intention to make his country safer by promoting «freedom» and «democracy» across the world. «It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world,» Bush said at the inauguration of his second term.
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