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A bashed-up pickup truck...
A bashed-up pickup truck is seen outside the shattered facade of a Millennium Bank branch in Glyfada, south of Athens, yesterday. |
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Accidents reveal failures
Greece's shipping industry is doing well beyond national borders. Its success is due to the high level of professionalism and the sector's respect for the rules set by international organizations.
At home, however, that same shipping industry follows the overall trend of Greek entrepreneurship: Professionalism is lacking, rules are not kept to and no one makes sure laws and regulations are monitored and enforced.
This is confirmed by the repeated shipping accidents, more recently by the fatal cargo ship explosion off the Perama docks on Thursday. |
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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). |
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