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ND prepares lists as bond scandal threatens plans PM outlines five key policy areas to focus on if re-elected for second term New Democracy made efforts to finalize its candidate list and policy program for the general election as the bond scandal resurfaced as a potentially decisive issue ahead of next month's poll.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Police deny role in migrant fall

Police in Thessaloniki yesterday denied that local officers had anything to do with the death of a Nigerian immigrant...

Fuel siphoned from refinery

Police in Attica are seeking to question several gas station managers following the arrest of a 32-year-old man believed to have been selling petrol...

Maid is found dead in Ekali

A Filipino maid has been found stabbed to death at a house in the affluent northern Athens suburb of Ekali...

Cyprus talks set for Sept 5

Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat are to have talks on September 5 for the first time in more than a year in a bid...

Cretan travel agent tries to shoot rival

Police in Hania, Crete, were yesterday seeking a female travel agent alleged to have fired a gun at a rival businessman in the city in northern Crete...

IN BRIEF

Istanbul prosecutor calls patriarch to justify use of term 'ecumenical' : A prosecutor in Istanbul has called Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios to give testimony...

Greek American wanted for hedge fund scam arrested on Crete : The former head of a hedge fund in New York was arrested...

Two ferry sailors charged : Two crew members of a ferry boat have been charged...

Human trafficking : There are up to 25,000 victims in Greece, according to figures...

Pinios pollution : Campaigners in Larissa, central Greece, yesterday called on authorities...

Million-euro theft : Thieves broke into a jewelry store in the old town on the island of...

Kyrkos discharged : Synaspismos Left Coalition founder Leonidas Kyrkos thanked...

Undercover brothel : A man has been arrested in the Athens suburb of Galatsi...

Unsafe : Employees of the Municipality of Lerna in Argolida, Peloponnese, returned...


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‘Aristarchos’...
EDITORIAL

Law and comedy Every four years, voters get to watch the same political comedy. It's called «maximum spending by deputy candidates in each district.» The plot is well known. The state sets a limit on the campaign spending by political candidates. They, in turn, pledge not to break the ceiling. A parliamentary committee is supposed to keep an eye on the money that goes into the campaigns...

COMMENTARY

Vision and supposed realism Parties, ideas and slogans aside, it's becoming clear that Greek politics is split into two rival camps: on one hand there are those who think that «that's Greece, it's too late to try and change it» and, on the other, those who insist that «Greece could be in much better shape but it's being unfair on itself.» The two camps cut across party lines. Of course the advocates of the status quo outnumber all the others.

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