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 World police briefed on 2004 |
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| Greek security officials yesterday briefed their colleagues from the 202 countries that will be taking part in the Athens Olympics on the security arrangements for the Games. They explained administration, operations, border controls, the role of the armed forces, air space surveillance and special planning for VIP transfers and the protection of sponsors.
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| Tax breaks for trading in old bikes |
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| Owners of motorcycles that have been on the road for more than 10 years and whose engines measure over 50 cubic centimeters (cc) and less than 300 cc will enjoy some tax breaks if they trade their bikes in for a newer model, according to a series of reforms unveiled yesterday by Transport Minister Michalis Liapis.
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| Double shifts for hospitals |
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| The government will abolish private afternoon consultations at state hospitals by the end of the year but will keep hospitals open longer, fulfilling one of its campaign pledges, Health and Social Solidarity Minister Nikitas Kaklamanis said yesterday.
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| German to be tried under Schengen pact |
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| A German doctor has been committed to trial in Athens next January in connection with charges that Greek cancer patients died in his clinic after being promised treatment, without being told the method being used was not scientifically approved. Dr Rolf Babauer, the owner of the clinic, is charged with manslaughter through negligence, and fraud.
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Athens’s Municipal Band...
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EDITORIAL |
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ESR overhaul
One of the main expectations held by the broad majority that voted the conservative New Democracy party into power was that the new government would purge the system of political and business entanglement. The spearhead of this parallel system of power, so to speak, was, and still is, the entangled interests that control the media - particularly radio and television - so that they can put pressure on the political figures they wish to manipulate. |
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COMMENTARY |
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www.surprise.gr
Unused to and unfamiliar with being relieved of the reins of power, which had almost become a lifestyle and ideology for the Socialists, PASOK, after the national elections, is at a loss, wavering between «regrouping» and «renewal.» Socialist party general secretary Michalis Chrysochoidis once promised, in awkward Greek, that «while in opposition, PASOK will every day prove its governability.» The party however appears baffled and unable to maintain its strength, let alone energize its voters. The only certainty seems to be a further defeat in the pending European elections, this time trailing New Democracy by an even wider margin. |
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