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EU slams deficit efforts and calls for further action Greece could face tighter monitoring in 2005 The European Commission yesterday called on Greece to bring in more measures to lower its public deficit than it has planned in the 2005 budget, while asking EU finance ministers (Ecofin) to consider taking further disciplinary action against the country. «Greece has taken no effective action to correct its excessive deficit,» said EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia while presenting the executive body's report in Brussels yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

MPs set to pass budget in after-midnight vote

Parliament was set to approve the 2005 state budget early today, following five days of often acrimonious debate. Although opposition parties were expected to vote against the budget in a ballot due to start at midnight...

Textile makers see thousands of job losses

Greek textile manufacturers yesterday warned that the abolition, in 10 days' time...

IAAF slaps temporary ban on sprinters pending Greek ruling

Disgraced former sprint stars Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were yesterday banned by international athletics officials...

Directors say pirates take a cut

As Greek films are becoming increasingly popular with local audiences, the problem of DVD piracy...

Tatoulis blasts costly Cultural Olympiad

The previous government's much-vaunted Olympiad of cultural events was too expensive, badly organized...

IN BRIEF

Athens metro and electric railway trains to run every 10 minutes : Athens metro and electric railway (ISAP) trains will run roughly every 10 minutes...

Fireworks and concert planned : Athens will see in 2005 with a free open-air concert at Kotzia Square...

Court protest : Human rights campaigners burst into a Patras appeals court yesterday...

Child porn : The head of the press office of the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE)...

Tsirkas library : A collection of some 3,000 books donated by writer Stratis Tsirkas's widow...

Railway death : A woman was killed by an oncoming train yesterday as she tried to cross tracks...

Card scam : Italian police announced yesterday that they had broken up a gang of fraudsters...

Stadium objections : Synaspismos Left Coalition yesterday voiced its opposition to the construction...


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EDITORIAL

Minister’s stance Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's intention, which he declared in no uncertain terms even before being elected to office - to strengthen the mechanisms for eradicate entangled interests and to strike at state corruption - is already being carried out by means of specific policies. Apart from a number of control systems imposed by ministerial decree in various sensitive areas of the State's services and following...

COMMENTARY

Bound by the past The outcome of the EU's Brussels summit should prompt neither euphoric statements by the ruling party nor a harsh critique from the opposition. What the European governments agreed on with respect to Ankara's EU bid, Turkey's recognition of the Republic of Cyprus and references to Greek-Turkish disputes in the summit's conclusions, are not separate political chapters. They did not make a simultaneous appearance on the diplomatic stage so that they could get emergency treatment.

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