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2004 budget warning Government says extra spending will come from ATHOC’s funds The government said yesterday that it would undertake only part of the costs of adapting facilities to meet Olympic standards for the Athens 2004 Games, saying that the rest would come out of the organizing committee's budget. It insisted that the overall budget for the Games would remain fixed at 4.6 billion euros.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

A member of the Israeli national team...

A member of the Israeli national team jumps for the ball during an Athens qualifying match...

EU prompts promise of new reforms

A day after EU finance ministers warned Greece to curb spending and reform its social security system...

Nafplion security and nonsense

As a 2,000-strong police force prepared to confront the first anti-globalization protests of the Greek presidency...

Port police are ‘doing a good job’

Greek harbor police arrested over 3,000 illegal immigrants trying to sneak onto Italy-bound ferries last year...

Clerides: Better a known rival

Rauf Denktash, the embattled Turkish-Cypriot leader, received help from an unexpected quarter yesterday...

Expert denies claims of impending quake

A leading seismologist yesterday denied press reports that experts fear a strong earthquake in western Greece...

IN BRIEF

FM seeks political solutiooIraq with Europeaand Arab counterparts : ForeigMinister George Papandreou yesterday discussed prospects for a political solution...

Firms and buses ‘guiding’ tourists ipurchases to face steep fines : Travel firms and coach drivers accepting payment from souvenir shops to ensure tourists otheir tours pass by...

Church denied burial to Evangelist : The interventioof Archbishop Christodoulos himself was necessary to convince church authorities...

WW II rounds : More tha1,000 old artillery rounds have beeunearthed from a constructiosite ithe Evosmos district...

US deal : Parliament yesterday ratified a Greek-US agreement governing the status of US forces iGreece...

Rapist convicted : A Larissa court yesterday sentenced a 39-year-old kebab store owner to 17 years and four months ijail...

Mexicaaid : Greece is to send 200,000 euros ihumanitariaaid to help Mexico tackle the damage from Tuesday’s earthquake...

Rio : Passenger ferries operating othe Rio-Antiroute will be disrupted by work stoppages betweetoday and Sunday...


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EDITORIAL

Managing spending Socialist officials attending a joint ministerial meeting chaired by Prime Minister Costas Simitis yesterday were fiercely critical of the excessive spending by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee. Many a minister said that the committee tends to indulge in lavish luxury which is accompanied by ill-thought-out and excessive expenditure, all of which are out of sync with the current economic situation.

COMMENTARY

A pitiful model Those who disagree with the Annan proposal for Cyprus «are aligning themselves with Ankara and (Turkish-Cypriot leader) Rauf Denktash, who are exercising a separatist policy in the Cyprus issue.» Those in Greece who disagree with the government's policy of strongly supporting (without first giving it serious thought) Turkey's «European» policy, are, in the view of the «reformists,» old-fashioned nationalists, and dyed-in-the-wool «Turk-haters.»

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