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Economy’s ugly reality Alogoskoufis accuses PASOK of prettifying it; Papademos steps in The previous government hid Greece's debts and was oblivious to economic reality, making last week's review of public deficit figures a necessity, Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis said in an interview with Sunday's Kathimerini. Alogoskoufis remained upbeat about Greece's economic future, saying the end of the Olympics combined with corporate tax cuts and policies to encourage investment and competition would ensure continued growth and help lower the deficit to within EU limits.

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Bomb threat forces OA jet to land early

A New York-bound Olympic Airlines passenger jet had to make an emergency landing at a London airport yesterday, escorted by British fighter jets, following bomb threats phoned in to a Greek newspaper.

No more ‘special social’ transfers?

In the wake of last week’s scandal concerning preferential student transfers from the provinces to prestigious Athens and Thessaloniki universities for the children of politicians, Education Minister Marietta Giannakou pledged to radically reform the transfer system.

Big-time drug ring broken

Police in Athens have arrested an Albanian Gypsy and are seeking several more men on suspicion of involvement in what was described yesterday as one of the largest gangs smuggling heroin from Albania to Greece.

Migrant ship off south Crete

Coast guard officers off the island of Crete were keeping a close watch yesterday on an Egyptian trawler that had issued a distress call while carrying dozens of illegal immigrants.

Man held for beating his girlfriend to death

A man was arrested on Saturday in northern Greece on suspicion of having bludgeoned his girlfriend to death with a stone, following a heated argument.

IN BRIEF

Athens gets early morning jolt : An earthquake, measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale...

Evia fire : A major operation by emergency services was needed over the weekend...

Free museums : Entrance to museums and archaeological sites around Greece is free today...

Rimini remembrance : President Costis Stephanopoulos yesterday visited the graves of the 117 Greek officers and soldiers...

Chechen claims : Terrorists, mainly of Chechen origins, are being trained in Turkish-held northern Cyprus...

Water contest : Tap water from the town of Kallikrateia in Halkidiki was judged to be the tastiest tap water...

Gang arrests : Two members of a gang suspected of at least 22 thefts in Attica...

THIS WEEK

Monday : Patriarch Ignatios of Antioch begins weeklong...

Tuesday : Pro-Palestinian rally outside the Palestinian diplomatic mission...

Wednesday : Olympic Airlines introduces two new flights to Istanbul...

Thursday : The German-Greek Chamber of Industry and Commerce holds three-day symposium...

Friday : The University of Ioannina holds Fifth Panhellenic Conference on Algebra and Number Theory.»...

Saturday : «Information in the Age of Digital Technology» conference...


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EDITORIAL

Screening the screen As the viewing public was deluged with endless talk shows analyzing the proliferating nepotism allegations (prompted by the controversial transfers of ministers' student children to more prestigious universities), the Parliament's Institutional Transparency Committee presented a unanimous interparty report that confirmed the State's failure to monitor the dire situation in the field of radio and television. The findings of the report were to be expected. Fifteen years after the abolition of the state monopoly on radio and television, things look grim.

COMMENTARY

Policy before PR Though Costas Karamanlis's party rode to power with a strong majority, and despite the fact that the Socialist opposition is mired in a serious identity crisis (owing much to the radical ideas of its new leader, George Papandreou), government officials have been voicing concerns about an allegedly poor communications strategy since their first weeks in office. No one seems to be bothered much by government inaction per se, for many consider public relations as something that can be made out of nothing. We should call a spade a spade. Communications policy is only another name for propaganda, and it was Nazi propaganda director Joseph Goebbels who elevated the idea to a whole new level.

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