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EC warning in the mail Athens has 14 days to defend law banning media barons from state deals Brushing aside the explanations provided by Athens, the European Commission yesterday launched the first stage of its infringement procedure against Greece over the ruling conservatives' controversial new law on state tenders.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Church rift over land sale scandal?

RAMALLAH (AFP) - The Greek Orthodox Church was flung into a fresh crisis yesterday...

Hellenikon to be developed

Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias yesterday admitted that part of the former Athens airport in Hellenikon would inevitably be handed over for development...

Latsis coerced, top aide claims

A legal adviser to the group of companies owned by business magnate Yiannis Latsis testified yesterday...

Court finds 13 guilty in share scam

The three-month trial of 17 people charged with tricking stock market investors and falsely driving up share prices in 1999 ended yesterday...

Lebanese nationals living in Athens...

Lebanese nationals living in Athens hold candles and shout slogans in Syntagma Square yesterday evening...

Constantopoulos to sue over ‘wife beating’

The former head of Greece's fourth-largest political party said yesterday he would seek to clear his name in court...

IN BRIEF

Deadline extended to June 4 as amnesty fails to deliver : A new extension was issued yesterday to the deadline for repatriating funds from abroad...

Two PASOK MPs contest ruling : Two opposition PASOK deputies who face losing their seats to New Democracy MPs...

Free entry : Entry to most state-run museums and archaeological sites around the country will be free...

Turkish violations : Twelve formations of 34 Turkish jets yesterday violated Greek air space...

Intercity coaches : There will be no serving the country tomorrow...

Organic products : Nearly four in five so-called organic food products on sale at Greek retail outlets have not been certified...

Soccer fears : Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis and Albania's Ambassador in Athens...

Caricaturist defiant : Austrian caricaturist Gerhard Haderer poses in front of an actor...

Matricide : An Iraklion court yesterday exonerated, on the grounds of insanity, a 35-year-old man...


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EDITORIAL

Hidden agenda The European Commission's decision yesterday to initiate proceedings against Greece on the controversial new law banning media barons from access to lucrative state tenders wraps up a phase of consultations while opening a new round of legal confrontation. True, officials in Brussels had been expressing their misgivings about the measures since the time of the Socialist government, which left office early last year.

COMMENTARY

Patricians and plebeians Press reports yesterday said that plans to introduce a voluntary retirement scheme for OTE, Greece's main telecoms operator, may be canceled to spare the exorbitant 2-billion-euro pricetag. In other words, Greek taxpayers would have to pay some 410,000 euros for each OTE employee to be made redundant. Plans to restructure other public corporations that are currently burdened with excess and overpaid staff...

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