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EU umbrella for Games Greeks seek closer cooperation, intelligence sharing for Olympics As the task of making the Olympics safe becomes increasingly urgent, Greece has been trying to find ways to simplify the exchange of information between EU members.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Conservative party stresses social state

Parliament was expected to give Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's conservative government a vote of confidence early today after a three-day debate on its policy declaration. The vote, which began at midnight, was a formality as New Democracy won 165 seats in the 300-seat Parliament in the March 7 elections.

Cyprus talks enter Phase II

The European Union's leaders will discuss the Cyprus issue at their summit on Thursday and Friday and will include a paragraph on it in their final communique, following Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis's persuading his EU counterparts to decide this yesterday. Four-party talks, involving the Greek and Turkish Cypriots and Greece and Turkey, will begin tomorrow.

Olympians to get A-1 forecasts

Olympic sailors and rowers will know right down to the last tiny gust of wind what weather conditions to expect during their events in the August Games, according the National Meteorological Service (EMY).

Magic mushroom smuggler caught

A 31-year-old airline passenger arriving in Athens from Amsterdam last Friday was allegedly found to be smuggling mushrooms into the country - no ordinary mushrooms but a variety containing psychotropic substances that produce effects similar to those of LSD.

IN BRIEF

Ex-minister calls for resignation of current deputy over museum suit : PASOK deputy and former Culture Minister Theodoros Pangalos yesterday called for the resignation...

Teachers, parents, children form NGO for the protection of minors : Teachers, parents and children are to meet in Athens today...

More than 100 disappear : Unidentified robbers yesterday removed about 100 passport applications...

Cox visit : European Parliament President Pat Cox yesterday met Greek Parliament Speaker...

Agricultural claims :Agricultural Development Minister Savvas Tsitouridis yesterday asked for 300 million euros...

Hands-on learning : A Thessaloniki prosecutor is to investigate charges...

Journalists awarded : President Costis Stephanopoulos yesterday presented journalists with the Botsis Foundation's annual awards...

Airport fog : Fog over Thessaloniki airport yesterday resulted in many flights being delayed...

Fans hurt : Two fans of PAOK soccer team who were seriously injured...

Tanker fire : All but one of the 25 crew members of a Greek-owned, fuel-laden tanker abandoned the Maltese-flagged vessel safely...


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Hamas hit is condemned
EDITORIAL

A focus on people The parliamentary debate of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's New Democracy government policy declaration over the weekend was of special political interest. We are not referring to the policies per se, which were in any case announced by a government with a political and ideological platform distinct from its Socialist predecessor, but to the broader changes that loom over the domestic political landscape in the wake of the national election earlier this month.

COMMENTARY

Wall of blood As the descendant of an imperial tradition accustomed to unlawful score-settling, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw was pragmatic rather than ethical in describing the assassination of the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as «unacceptable» and «unjustified.» Notwithstanding his cynicism, not even Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the orchestrator of this lethal act, would ever attempt to justify a rocket strike against a wheelchair-bound, old man.

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