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Big tax hikes in store Smokers, mobile phone users must pay more to boost state revenues Taxes on cigarettes and monthly mobile phone subscriptions will rise by up to 317 percent as the government tries to secure state revenues amid the geopolitical uncertainty and high petrol prices threatening to derail its budget policy.

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EYP remains tight-lipped on tapping

The leaders of Greece's secret service yesterday failed to tell MPs anything about their investigation into the phone-tapping scandal as the parliamentary committee which has been probing the matter for the last five months ended its inquiry for now.

Smuggling routes under watch

Authorities are examining the possibility that there are strong links between the gangs that smuggle drugs into Greece and those that help illegal immigrants cross the Aegean from Turkey, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.

Day after fire, checks launched

Experts started conducting tests at Lavrion, southeast of Athens, yesterday to determine the environmental damage caused by Wednesday's fire at a solvents factory, as local officials accused the plant of operating illegally.

Abused son, 7, fights for life

Doctors in Thessaloniki were yesterday trying to save the life of a 7-year-old boy who had been badly beaten, while a prosecutor filed charges of attempted murder against the child's parents.

Time runs out for discount watch scam

A 33-year-old man was arrested in Athens yesterday, accused of running an international scam that claimed to sell expensive watches at discount prices over the Internet but failed to deliver the goods.

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor charges five minors with murder of missing schoolboy : A prosecutor in the northern town of Veria yesterday charged five children with the murder of an 11-year-old Georgian boy...

Crdit Agricole reveals improved bid for Greek bank is 25 euros per share : France's Crdit Agricole (CA) upped its offer to buy 100 percent of Emporiki to 25 euros per share...

Pastry shop owner shot in head : A gunman shot in the head and killed the 48-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Kolonos...

Soccer funds : The former president of the Greek soccer league (EPAE), Viktoras Mitropoulos, yesterday filed a law suit...

Fratricide? : A 47-year-old man allegedly killed his brother in Aghios Dimitris, southeast Athens...

Holdups : Armed thieves held up a branch of Alpha Bank in Thessaloniki yesterday...

Ferry chief missing : Authorities said yesterday that they could not find the president of shipping company NEL...

Sudden death : A 38-year-old man died in a car crash near Larissa, central Greece, yesterday some 15 minutes after he stabbed a colleague...

Ticket change : The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) reminded commuters...


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EDITORIAL

PPC’s call to boost rates is exploitative The demand by the Public Power Corporation (PPC) - which has already been approved by the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) - for the right to hike electricity rates 2 percent above inflation due to rising oil prices will hinder the government's efforts to put a lid on inflation. First and foremost, such an initiative breaks with common sense and simple mathematics.

COMMENTARY

Operating on the edge Some time ago, a bank commercial on TV showed a couple enjoying a romantic boat trip. Suddenly, the boat sprang a leak. Alarmed, the man tried to plug the hole, but his efforts were in vain. Soon, the boat was taking in water everywhere. This advertisement reflects the Greek economy. While we were busy stopping the deficit leak, the National Statistics Service bore another hole into the proverbial boat by reporting that oil is sending inflation sky-high. It will reach 3.8-4 percent in July. Every economy faces problems caused by high oil prices. But some economies have room to maneuver in the new environment while others do not.

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