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Report claims serious Olympic security lapses Athens counters with ‘safest’ Games Greece and the organizers of the Athens 2004 Olympics reacted angrily to a report by the Washington Post on Saturday which claimed that security planning for the Games was «beset by problems.»

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Cyprus awaits its time

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is watching developments on Cyprus and is ready to resume efforts to reunify the island when conditions are ripe, Greece's foreign minister, George Papandreou, said after a meeting with Annan in New York late on Friday.

Study finds cycle lanes feasible

Athens is one of the few European capitals to lack a single bicycle lane, and cyclists who brave the city's streets do so at the risk of life and limb. But a study by traffic experts conducted on behalf of the Transport Ministry has found that a small network of bicycle lanes could work in the perennially congested city.

Vergina display enriched

The underground museum in northern Greece where graves associated with King Philip, father of Alexander the Great, and other Macedonian royals were found 26 years ago reopened to the public yesterday after an eight-month interval, with significant additions to the finds on display.

Driver killed in rally crash

A rally driver was killed and his co-driver seriously injured when their car hit an electricity pole at the opening of an international rally in the Peloponnese on Saturday.

Thousands of demonstrators...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Syntagma Square in central Athens on Saturday for a protest...

Reporters cleared for demolishing own story

Two journalists have been acquitted of fraud and extortion after a northern Greek court found they had stuck to the truth in demolishing a human interest story they had initially espoused as a worthy cause, according to an Athens News Agency report on Saturday.

IN BRIEF

At least 30 Hungarians hurt : A bus carrying a group of Hungarian nationals — mostly 18-20 year-old members of a dance group — crashed late yesterday...

Abandoned baby : Churchgoers in Kato Patissia yesterday discovered a 1-month-old baby boy outside the local Aghios Andreas Church...

Drug rings : Attica drug squad officers have broken two smuggling rings in Ano Petralona and Piraeus, police said yesterday...

Iran visit : Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Loverdos yesterday discussed bilateral cooperation between Greece and Iran...

Minister burgled : A Cypriot man and a Russian immigrant have been arrested in connection with a break-in...

Fisherman dead : Coast guards in Porto Rafti, southern Attica, yesterday recovered the body of a 32-year-old man off the coast of Hamolia...


THIS WEEK

Monday President Costis Stephanopoulos visits Evia...

Tuesday Patras court to try 76-year-old Giorgos Karousos for allegedly breaking hygiene laws...

Wednesday Cabinet discusses draft of 2004 state budget proposal...

Cyprus Independence Day...(Σελ. 2) Olympic Airways flight attendants stage two three-hour work stoppages...

Thursday PM Costas Simitis to attend EU summit in Rome...

Friday World Animal Day. Hellenic Animal Welfare Society holds an event...


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Markus Thalmann...
EDITORIAL

A private affair The official acknowledgment that the cost of the Olympic Games' preparations will exceed estimates by about 1.5 billion euros underscores the dangers lurking in a handout-driven policy at a time of intense fiscal pressure. (Note that, according to unofficial estimates, the budget overrun is much higher).

COMMENTARY

The economic para-state Burgeoning demands by workers and the handouts pledged by Prime Minister Costas Simitis have fanned concerns over the durability of the economy, as if the entire system could be jeopardized by a 30-euro pension hike. We are not, of course, in favor of any unchecked increase in public spending in a period of economic stagnation. However, the problem with the Simitis administration is that it has frittered away EU funds, feeding a new powerful economic oligarchy that has seized people's savings by way of the Athens bourse and squandered European funds, pushing a large section of the population below the poverty line.

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