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Drive to end illegal trash dumps Some 2,600 unchecked landfills to close down by 2008, by when there should be 55 legal sites A new chapter in Greece's checkered history of waste management opened yesterday as a multi-million-euro plan to quickly close most of the estimated 2,600 illegal landfill sites dotted around the country was unveiled yesterday by Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias.

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OA loses 2 suitors, 3 left

Three of the five original groups in the running to buy ailing Olympic Airlines remain in contention, the government said yesterday....

National pride built on ancients

Young Greeks tend to be gloomy and insecure, with a deep-rooted pride in their national identity that mainly stems from the achievements of a culture that died 2,000 years ago...

Plan to export inmates stalled

Plans for the government to build a jail in Albania to house Albanian prisoners serving long-term sentences in Greece have run into trouble...

Judge is remanded in prison

One of the four judges sacked in the course of an investigation into trial fixing and corruption was yesterday remanded in custody...

Case of stolen art may help Marbles demand

LONDON (Reuters) - A British court case over art looted by the Nazis could pave the way for Britain to return Greece's Parthenon Marbles...

IN BRIEF

Olympiakos Piraeus wins its eighth title in the past nine years : Olympiakos won the Greek soccer league yesterday...

Ministry figures reveal a drop in robberies and fatal road accidents : There has been a significant drop in thefts, robberies and road fatalities this year...

Nicosia objects to US visit to north : Nicosia is doing all it can to stop the scheduled visit...

Aegean violations : Thirty Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space in the northern and central Aegean nine times yesterday...

Psychiatrist trial : The trial of a psychiatrist who allegedly supplied illegal drugs to patients...

Florakis : Hundreds of citizens visited the Greek Communist Party's (KKE) headquarters...

Illegal immigrants : Coast guards on Corfu yesterday detained two illegal immigrants...

Foreign affairs : The cross-party National Council for Foreign Policy (ESEP) is to convene...

Salonica floods : Dozens of ground-floor and basement apartments and stores in Thessaloniki were flooded yesterday...


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EDITORIAL

Cleaning up mess of illegal trash It's strange but true: 2,626 illegal dumps are operating in Greece at the moment. The figure was listed in a revealing report by a special committee set up by the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works that confirmed the unnerving extent of the problem. Of the total number of illegal landfills, 1,453 are still in operation, putting a heavy strain on the environment, while 1,173 have been shut down because they were full or were no longer useful.

COMMENTARY

Rebuilding the state There is no longer any doubt that calls to rebuilt the public sector only make sense if they aim at creating the kind of state the country needs. Talk over the years about hearkening back to the past does not mean much, since a smaller and cheaper state would not necessarily mean a better one. What we need is improved state services and a new organizing principle based on our political and social perception...

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