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Pressure on archbishop Calls mount for Christodoulos to resign over links to shady pair The head of the Church of Greece came under increasing pressure to step down yesterday after the emergence of claims linking him closer than ever before to a fugitive drug dealer and a priest alleged to be at the center of a trial-fixing ring, but the government refused to join in the calls for his resignation.

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Judge sacked over delayed decisions

While the probe into judges suspected of trial fixing deepens, the Supreme Court yesterday sacked a lower court judge for undue delays in deciding on cases he heard.

Nicosia: ‘No’ to five-party talks

The Cypriot government yesterday rejected a proposal by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a «five-way meeting» of talks...

Stock farming ‘under threat’

The value of meat and milk imports has exceeded those of oil over the past seven years...

Residents to help fight crime

The first neighborhood watch scheme in Greece, whereby residents patrol their streets on the lookout for criminal activity, is set to be launched in the eastern Athens suburb of Vyronas, the local mayor told Kathimerini yesterday.

US asks Cyprus to extradite ‘fraudster’

The US Attorney's Office asked Cypriot authorities to extradite a Greek-American man accused of using various methods, including Internet auction scams, to defraud victims of more than $1 million, court sources said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

European Council warns Greece over corporal punishment in schools : The European Council's Committee for Social Rights has cautioned the Education Ministry...

4 life sentences for Salonica shepherd for murder of 3 Albanians and a Greek : A Thessaloniki court yesterday handed down four life sentences...

Authorities on alert for 10th day : Authorities in Macedonia and Thrace yesterday remained on standby...

Seaplane bill : Seaplanes will be conducting regular flights to islands across the country...

Pensioners : Economy Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis agreed to meet with unionists...

Heroin ring : A 15-year-old youth and a 47-year-old man arrested together in Thessaloniki...

Fraudsters caught : Two individuals who allegedly posed as members of a union...

Antiquities haul : A Greek woman faced a Halkida prosecutor yesterday...

Migrants detained : Coast guard officials in the Aegean have detained a total of 16 illegal immigrants...


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EDITORIAL

Counting the cost The data presented yesterday by Deputy National Economy and Finance Minister Petros Doukas on the 2004-related budget overruns exceeded the most pessimistic predictions concerning the extent of economic mismanagement during preparations for the Athens Olympics. As we have often noted on this page, the construction of venues and infrastructure projects for the Summer Olympic Games was seen by a small elite as a way of making easy money at the expense of the public purse.

COMMENTARY

Creative chaos If past is prologue, the Church scandal wave will ebb with time; but the implicated figures will hardly escape unscathed. Still, there are exceptions. The allegations could snowball and make way for radical changes. In the Church scandal, it was widely sensed from early on that any disclosures would be far-reaching, if only because the heady mix of gay sex, money, judges, secret agents, intrigue and priests is irresistible to the media.

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