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Violence against children frequent and family based 4,500 kids suffer parental abuse, some fatal New figures which suggest that at least 4,500 youngsters in Greece are seriously beaten by their father or mother each year and that three-quarters of the child murders that took place in 2003 were carried out by the victims' parents or relatives indicate that the problem of child abuse is much more widespread than previously thought.

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Looted Orthodox relics return home

Relics of two Byzantine saints, stolen by Crusaders from the empire's capital 800 years ago, were returned...

No EU sanctions on budgets, minister says

Greece will not be punished by the EU for its inaccurate budgets and revised deficit figures, Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis told Sunday Kathimerini.

Airport strike leads to delays

Flight delays of up to an hour are expected at Athens International Airport today as security staff are set to continue striking for a fourth day. Passenger and hand-luggage checks are being conducted by some 30 emergency personnel after the security workers' union extended what was meant to be a 24-hour strike on Friday. This resulted in long queues.

Four held for sniping at buses from hotel

Four youthful Cypriot tourists were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of having taken pot shots with an airgun at passing public buses from their balcony in a central Athens luxury hotel. Nobody was injured in the Panepistimiou Avenue attacks, in which three Athens blue buses were targeted between 3 a.m. and 2 p.m. One shot was fired at each bus, cracking a window.

IN BRIEF

Greece joins francophone organization : Greece became an official member of the International Organization of Francophone...

Cafe protest : Protesters stage a mock funeral along pedestrianized Adrianou Street...

Health 'piranhas' : Health Minister Nikitas Kaklamanis, in an interview with yesterday's Vima newspaper, claimed unspecified business...

Film festival : Iranian Mohsen Amiryousefi's «Bitter Dream» won the Golden Alexander...

Counterfeit products : Police in the southern Athens suburb of Alimos yesterday seized over 10,000 counterfeit luxury...


THIS WEEK

Monday : State hospitals begin new roster...

Tuesday : Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) holds a conference...

Wednesday : Economist conferences organize an international banking conference...

Thursday : Fifth General Assembly of Francophone countries...

Friday : Erasmus congress organizers and Naftemboriki daily holds a conference...

Saturday : Taxi drivers of Attica stage an eight-hour work stoppage...

Sunday : Andreas Papandreou Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISTAME)...


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EDITORIAL

Speaking out on family violence Every year, more than 4,500 cases of physical abuse of children are reported to the authorities. Some of the victims never reach hospitals. However, the sheer number of reported incidents is enough to indicate a serious social problem that cannot be captured by police statistics alone.

COMMENTARY

Without a strategy Greece's accession to what was then the European Economic Community in 1981 was hailed as a major achievement because it signaled, in a political sense, the country's departure from the region's volatile and dangerous environment - typified by Turkey and the Balkans - and promised a rosier future. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia a decade later, in December 1991, Greece once again plunged into the Balkans imbroglio...

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