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Fresh hope for ND in graft probe LAOS indicates that it will not vote in favor of prosecuting ex-Minister Pavlidis in Tuesday’s vote New Democracy appeared more confident yesterday that its former Aegean Minister Aristotelis Pavlidis will not face further action over corruption charges, mainly because the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) hinted that it would not vote in favor of having his immunity lifted.

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Drivers face more highway holdups

As thousands of drivers continued to return to Athens yesterday after the Easter break, they were informed they could soon face more traffic misery...

Island told to pay for coast guard

Authorities and residents on the tiny Aegean islet of Agathonisi, which has been swamped by illegal immigrants from neighboring Turkey...

Kurd ‘beating’ investigated

Port authorities yesterday ordered an urgent investigation into claims that a 29-year-old Kurdish immigrant was violently beaten by officers...

Family of five survives 40-meter plunge in car

A family of five, including three small children, emerged virtually unscathed from the wreck of their car early yesterday after plunging into a ravine some 40 meters deep...

IN BRIEF

Karamanlis heads to Nicosia, may meet Putin later this week : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is due to arrive in Nicosia today...

Large nest removed in Serres : Firemen collaborated with a beekeeper yesterday to remove a nest of some 6,000 wild bees...

Palaiocostas hospitalized : Nikos Palaiocostas, the brother of recently escaped convict Vassilis Palaiocostas...

Underage sex : A Cambodian court yesterday charged a Greek national...

Peloponnese tremor : An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale shook parts of the Peloponnese...

Lucky miss : Police in the Cretan port of Hania yesterday were seeking the motorist...

Holy row : Police in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, have detained a 60-year-old priest...

Dodgy products : The Development Ministry's General Secretariat for Consumers has received a sharp increase...


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EDITORIAL

No room for error in economy The great difficulty that the government appears to be having in its efforts to calculate the exact amount of the 2008 budget deficit clearly demonstrates the complete incompetence of the people who had been appointed by the former minister of economy and finance.

COMMENTARY

Behind the slogans We are great patriots in word but clearly not in deed. Reading the reports about the problems delaying the construction of a coast guard facility on the Aegean island of Agathonisi, I found them hard to believe. Everybody from the president of the Republic to the deputies of different parties are supposed to have «adopted» the island at a time when Ankara is attempting to question Greece's sovereignty.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

A matter of life and death Easter is a fitting time to think of the sacrifices that others have made for us, to contemplate the kind of generosity that leaves us speechless and to reflect on what we can do in our own lives to emulate, even to the smallest degree, this behavior.

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