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| No money for European elections |
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| The Interior Ministry said yesterday it is looking for some 72 million euros to cover the cost of the forthcoming European Parliamentary elections, as the previous government allegedly squandered nearly all the funds budgeted for this year's two elections on the March 7 national polls.
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| ELA trial stopped by new revolt |
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| The trial of five Revolutionary Struggle (ELA) terror suspects reopened yesterday after a week's break, only to be postponed till Monday when all defense lawyers refused to take part in the process.
They were protesting at the court's decision last Friday to appoint two lawyers to defend Irini Athanassaki, two of whose three lawyers stormed out of the courtroom after judges refused to disregard evidence submitted by a prosecution witness.
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| Ancient statue found on Chios |
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| Archaeologists on the island of Chios have discovered a rare life-sized marble statue of a youth dating to the mid-sixth century BC, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday.
The statue, of a type known as the kouros, was found during a rescue excavation at Emborio - on the island's southern tip - without its head, while the legs from the knee down were missing.
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| Archbishop’s donation for Kosovo rebuilding |
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| The Greek Orthodox archbishop of Albania said yesterday he was donating $600,000 (495,000 euros) for the rebuilding of an Orthodox church and a mosque destroyed during last week's ethnic violence in Kosovo.
«Burning churches and mosques does not advance justice and peace, but rather takes us back to times and behavior that led the Balkans to backwardness, division and protests,» Archbishop Anastasios said.
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IOC sees ‘safe basis’ for delivery of works
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EDITORIAL |
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European solution
Once again, diplomatic efforts to resolve the Cyprus issue have come to a head. So it was back in December 2002, ahead of the Copenhagen summit which was to decide on EU enlargement and, again, two months later in The Hague, shortly before the accession treaties of the EU candidate countries were signed. In both cases, the Turkish side was paralyzed by inner contradictions and torpedoed the talks by refusing to negotiate... |
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COMMENTARY |
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A dilemma for the economy
Kathimerini has long challenged the myth of Greece's «strong economy» - always based on specific data that demonstrate the country's fiscal woes and faltering productivity. We have repeatedly pointed out that once the EMU target was met, the country should have focused on structural reform and drilled to the heart of economic issues like competitiveness and productivity, which determine long-term prospects.
Concentration on these key economic issues, however, presupposed fiscal stability so that the government's economic policy could more effectively embark on the reform and restructuring needed to meet the challenges of a highly competitive environment. |
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