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Good marks for economy Positive EU report today set to signal last point toward ending supervision The European Union is expected to give Greece a major boost today in its effort to end the period of supervision the country's economy has been put under by Brussels over the last three years, sources said.

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Minister rebuffs EU’s CO2 warning

Environment and Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias yesterday dismissed as «theoretical» a warning by European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas...

Bid to quell cancer shot fears

Doctors assured women and girls yesterday that a new vaccine against cervical cancer is safe...

Man who hid corpse charged

A 46-year-old German man, who allegedly kept the decomposing corpse of his German girlfriend hidden in his rented flat in northern Greece for more than two months, has been charged...

Greeks in EU’s most stressed

Greeks are relatively happy citizens compared to their counterparts in the European Union, but are among the least optimistic in the EU as regards their country's economic outlook, according to a European poll made public yesterday.

Artistic director of the National Theater...

The newly appointed artistic director of the National Theater, Yiannis Houvardas (l), is seen next to Culture Minister...

Quack offering bogus cure caught in the act

Undercover police officers yesterday arrested a man in central Athens who sold potions to people suffering from serious illnesses, including cancer, which he promised would restore their health.

IN BRIEF

Officials pledge to soon fix buildings prone to earthquakes : Authorities said yesterday that they will decide within the next two months how to fix more than 250 schools that inspectors have found to be vulnerable to earthquakes...

Alleged murderer asks for IKA chief's body to be dug up for second autopsy : The man accused of murdering late IKA chief Yiannis Vrakatselis has asked for the civil servant's body to be exhumed and a new autopsy carried out...

Coroners charged : A prosecutor yesterday charged the head of the coroner's office in Athens, Philippos Koutsaftis, three coroners and the Justice Ministry's general manager...

Patricide case : A 19-year-old man from Nikaia, near Piraeus, accused of murdering his father has been given until tomorrow to testify...

Bank embezzlement : An employee of ATEbank in Lamia, central Greece, has been suspended because he allegedly embezzled thousands of euros from colleagues and customers...

Ancient coins : Two men have been arrested after a police search unearthed dozens of and a tombstone column from their Thessaloniki homes...

TODAY Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to meet with Defense Minister Evangelos Meimarakis at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m., he will chair an Inner Cabinet meeting on justice issues...


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They continued their protests...
EDITORIAL

The bottomless pit of Olympic Airlines In December, Italy's center-left coalition government led by Premier Romano Prodi launched a process for the privatization of the state-controlled airline Alitalia. It took two months to announce a short list of five candidates to take over the airline. The sale of Alitalia, whose annual losses are estimated at -1 billion, will be complete in April.

COMMENTARY

Looking for a cause Greek governments have traditionally invoked the Cyprus problem as an excuse to call for early elections - a habit that betrays the importance attached to the issue by native politicians. The conservative New Democracy party could once again quote the controversy surrounding Nicosia's oil exploration plans but the once-guiding Cyprus-decides-while-Greece- stands-by foreign policy dogma appears to be out of favor. Alternatively, the government could call for a snap election on the grounds of the education crisis. The truth is, however, that pompous warnings over the education mess in the past have had no impact on state education spending.

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