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Deficit recalculation Alogoskoufis says government figures since 2000 were wrong

Greece has revised upward, by at least 2 percent, the annual public deficit figures it submitted to the EU since 2000, Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis announced yesterday, causing a European finance chief to label the revelation «an enormous problem.»
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Minister out over son’s transfer
Agricultural Development Minister Savvas Tsitouridis was forced to resign yesterday following revelations that his son had been assigned a highly desirable seat at a prestigious Athens University to afford him better security...
Police catch e-banking thieves
An unassuming farmhouse outside Volos served as the headquarters of a Greek-Ukrainian gang that used electronic spyware to steal large sums from bank account-holders who conducted transactions over the Internet, police said yesterday.
New plan for Athens transport
The creation of a single body with the power to manage the Attica traffic and transport system was proposed at a meeting yesterday between Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis and local authority representatives.
Guarding the Games’ legacy
With the Olympics safely over and the end of the Paralympics drawing close, government officials met yesterday to discuss how to best protect Games venues from pilferers and vandals once the Games are over.
Forger craved James Bond reception in club
An unemployed man, who posed as a secret serviceman in a vain bid to impress a nightclub bouncer, has been arrested for forgery and illegal weapons possession, police said yesterday.
IN BRIEF
Red Cross denied immigrant access over technicality : A Red Cross team which tried to visit illegal immigrants in a holding center on the island of Samos...
Former auditors testify on Olympic mismanagement claims : Two dismissed former auditors of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee's finances gave evidence...
Free museums and sites : Entry to museums and archaeological sites around Greece will be free this weekend...
Bather from hell : Coast guard officers arrested a 37-year-old man yesterday...
Salonica quake : An earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, occurred 47 kilometers (29 miles) southeast of Thessaloniki...
Murder charge : A 29-year-old Albanian has been arrested in connection with the murder of an OTE Telecom employee...
Arms stash : Police found four handguns, two light machine guns, 10 rifles, 337 bullets and rifle cartridges of various sizes...
Grape wrath : Grape producers from western Greece caused traffic jams by staging a protest drive...
Worker killed : A 52-year-old man was killed yesterday while stacking wood in a warehouse in Ambelokipi...
Licence fee : Police arrested a 26-year-old man after he admitted buying his truck driver's license...
Bus changes : Temporary restrictions will be placed on bus routes and traffic in Vouliagmeni, south of Athens, tomorrow, Saturday and Monday...

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Jenny Dalgliesh...
EDITORIAL
On with the job
 The government demonstrated a lack of harmony and coordination during its handling of the problems that resulted from the crash of a military helicopter two weeks ago near Mt Athos which killed 17 people including the patriarch of Alexandria and his entourage. While this can be explained to some extent, it is by no means excusable. It was also clear that the main opposition PASOK party attempted to make political capital out of the government's failings.
COMMENTARY
EU’s pathetic ‘hide and seek’
 The European Union's stance regarding Turkey's accession is beginning to verge on the ridiculous from the political standpoint. The EU's entire approach shows the lack of common external policy in this organization, which is supposed to be setting itself up as a rival to the US on the international stage. From what is being discussed within the EU today by various politicians and EU officials regarding Turkey, it is clear that some of the (then 15) members and the Commission either did not realize what they had done regarding the decision on Turkey's accession process in 1998-99 (at the summits in Cardiff and Helsinki), or else they did realize it but had no political will to resist the US line that above all wanted Turkey to be part of the half-hearted «political unification» of Europe.
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