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 Two fatalities, more feared dead, in ship explosion at Perama dock |
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At least two dockworkers were killed and four hospitalized with injuries yesterday afternoon, with another five feared missing...
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| Nimetz wants return to diplomacy |
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| The United Nations mediator in the Macedonia name dispute, Matthew Nimetz, yesterday called on Skopje to focus on the matter at hand...
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| New rules for private guards |
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| A bill that attempts to regulate the operations of private security firms, which employ some 50,000 people in Greece, was submitted to Parliament yesterday.
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| Athens more pricey than top world cities |
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| Athens is the 25th most expensive city in the world, ranking alongside Amsterdam and Sao Paolo, according to the results of a survey of 143 cities assessed by international human resources consulting firm Mercer.
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Briton Leah Andrews...
Briton Leah Andrews steps out of a police car outside a prosecutor's office in Iraklion, on Crete, yesterday. |
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EDITORIAL |
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How our trust has been lost
The public will be interested to hear that Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis has discovered there is a persistent lack of money flowing into public coffers.
People would be forgiven for asking whether the same minister can be trusted with the task of stamping out tax evasion, which falls within his remit.
For instance, people who are in the know are well aware that, unlike other companies, firms that also own media groups have not undergone thorough tax inspections at regular intervals. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Still time to protect Greece
When we held our meeting to decide on this week's lead story, we thought that maybe we were getting a little too negative by choosing to focus on the price gouging of tourists. People come here to have a good time, some of us argued, so maybe it gets to be a bit much to keep hearing about negative aspects to visiting Greece (or living here). In previous weeks we had already investigated how the haphazard opening times at museums and archaeological sites dishearten visitors, on the bad habits of taxi drivers, on how ferry companies are battling to control costs at a time of rising oil prices, and how prices for many goods and services are often more expensive in Greece than in other European countries (for everyone, not just visitors). We asked ourselves whether it was wise to add another negative story. The answers, though, were quick and convincing: This is the tourism season, if we are to be of any use to readers it will have to be now; our mission is not to make Greece look good (we'll let the country and its people speak for themselves), but to point out the problems and propose solutions; if the authorities are not doing what they should to remedy the situation, it's our job to point that out to them and to the public. |
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