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EU to probe accounts More deficit checks to come but euro membership not in danger The European Union announced yesterday it was launching a probe into Greek public finances, after confirming that Greece's public debt from 2000 on was larger than previously declared, but admitted that it was too late to reconsider its membership of the eurozone.

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Nepotism straddles party divide

Just one day after a Cabinet minister was forced to resign following revelations that he had pressed for his son's transfer to a prestigious university on highly unusual grounds...

ATHOC head: All was legal

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, head of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee yesterday responded to criticism in an audit...

ELA terror decision on October 6

The court trying five suspected members of the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) group broke up yesterday...

Salonica cabbie sets a new low

A Thessaloniki taxi driver is to stand trial today on charges of beating a pregnant customer...

Disgraced sprinters...

Disgraced sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou (l) yesterday went to the Athens main court complex...

Top prosecutor urges ban on minority union

The Supreme Court prosecutor has urged judges to uphold a lower court's ban on a Muslim minority association in Thrace...

IN BRIEF

Novelist who wrote about Asia Minor war dies of lung infection : Novelist Dido Sotiriou died yesterday at the age of 95 from a lung infection...

Suspect indicted for string of anarchist-linked attacks : A Thessaloniki judicial council indicted a man suspected of involvement...

Portable devices to stay : Some 1,000 portable radiation detectors used as part of the Olympic security operation are to be dealt out...

Culture strike : Culture Ministry contract workers decided yesterday to launch a four-day strike on Monday...

Beating death : A coroner ruled that a man found dead on a street in northwestern Athens yesterday was beaten to death...

Abuse probe : Health Minister Nikitas Kaklamanis yesterday said he had asked a prosecutor in Hania, Crete, to speed up his investigation...

Immigrants caught : Eight illegal immigrants of various nationalities were arrested on Samos yesterday...

Kalavryta trains : The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) announced yesterday that, due to ongoing work, there would be a change...


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EDITORIAL

The low road Ever since 1997 we have repeatedly drawn attention to the government's falsification of budget data. We believe that a government should for no reason cook the books, fudge the budget figures or in any way cultivate false expectations and myths like the one of the «powerful economy» that came into vogue during the Simitis government. We came under fire back then for allegedly undermining the robustness of the Greek economy.

COMMENTARY

Unbearable lightness The European Commission will soon present Turkey's progress report and, in light of assurances by the EU's enlargement commissioner yesterday, the penal code issue has been resolved and Turkey is set to get the green light from the EU's executive arm. The European Council will most likely set a number of conditions for the start of membership talks, but Ankara will clearly be on an accession course. This may take years, but the destination is given.

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