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A Cypriot reservist...
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EDITORIAL |
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Poor record
Nine years after former Socialist prime minister Costas Simitis inaugurated his step-by-step rapprochement policy with Turkey and six years after the European Council at Helsinki took the landmark decision of awarding Ankara EU-candidate status, the mood among Greek foreign-policy makers is far from triumphant. The single fruit to have been reaped from Greece's repeated overtures to Ankara and the government's support of Turkey's EU ambitions is that tension in bilateral relations has eased. The gain, however, is mutual and cannot be considered a concession on Ankara's part. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Too weak to purge corruption
I was complaining yet again to National Economy Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis the other day about the impunity of tax dodgers. «Your government,» I told him, «was the first to use the electronic data from tax and VAT declarations, and, by examining the cross-checking conducted by the IT general secretariat, I discovered some 800,000 discrepancies. The greatest discrepancies concerned 4,145 large companies. Crosschecking of invoices concerning transactions between companies revealed blatant discrepancies exceeding 100.000 euros.» |
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