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Media law compromise Commission approves draft bill lifting ban on owners from state contracts The European Commission and Greece have reportedly arrived at a compromise over the hotly disputed «shareholder law» which had barred media owners from bidding for public contracts.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

EU pulls brake on northern metro

The European Commission appears to have pulled the brake on the tender process concerning the building of the Thessaloniki metro, a construction project that has dragged on for the past 20 years.

Rightist Turks defy patriarch

Around 200 far-right Turks staged a protest in front of the headquarters of Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios...

Fighter jet price tag in dispute

The government came under fire from the opposition yesterday over the purchase of 40 F-16 fighter jets from the United States that PASOK claims is too expensive and will hurt the economy's growth prospects.

Government eyes traffic card

Government plans aimed at reducing the number of cars that enter the center of Athens may include requiring all vehicles to pay for the right to access the capital's central district, according to a Transport Ministry official.

National warns of e-mail fraud scheme

National Bank of Greece has called on its customers to ignore e-mails from senders that claim to represent the bank in their attempt to obtain personal details, just days after peer Alpha was targeted in a similar scheme.

IN BRIEF

Improving bilateral relations is in Ankara's interests, president says : President Karolos Papoulias yesterday called on Turkey to cooperate with Greece...

Dozens get gastroenteritis during excursion around western Greece : About 50 people from northern Greece on a trip to western parts of the country were hospitalized...

FM condemns anti-Israeli stance : Greece joined the international community...

Jerusalem patriarch : The new head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem has filed a legal suit in the Israeli Supreme Court...

Human error : Cypriot authorities blamed yesterday for a plane accident...

Smugglers jailed : Five crew members of a boat trying to smuggle 147 illegal immigrants into Greece were jailed...

Online drugs : Police in Athens on Thursday arrested a 37-year-old foreigner...

Kostunica : Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav will visit Mount Athos while in Greece next week...

Desperate act : A storeowner in central Athens tried to set himself alight on Thursday...

Fatal accident : Three people were killed in a road accident near Thessaloniki...

Time change : Clocks go back one hour at 4 a.m. on Sunday...


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65th anniversary...
EDITORIAL

Joining hands The unhealthy climate that is being cultivated by the media does not create the right conditions under which to commemorate the anniversary of October 28, 1940, a historic event of national unanimity and resistance. But that is how history works. Different times create different challenges that, in turn, call on people and their leaders to provide different answers.

COMMENTARY

Lax morals The influence of so-called TV tribunals is no doubt disquieting - but it would not have reached such unnerving proportions were it not for the widespread corruption besetting the country's political system. Self-styled TV prosecutors are the wrong answer to an acute problem. The far-reaching tentacles of corruption have a deleterious effect on society. People bribe state officials to spare time-consuming bureaucracy. In the higher echelons of power, corruption manifests itself in a different form. The so-called entangled interests undermine free competition and weaken democratic institutions.

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