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Minister grasps tax rise nettle Alogoskoufis hopes VAT rises and hike in cigarette and alchohol rates will bring in 2.6 bln euros Promising that it would be the last for the foreseeable future, Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis yesterday unveiled a virtually immediate hike in VAT rates and tax on alcohol and cigarettes in a bid to claw back the runaway public deficit.

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Blueprint for economy is made public

Driven by the need to reduce Greece's public deficit so that it meets eurozone criteria by the end of next year...

EU: Turkey need not ratify deal

While Turkey must sign an agreement extending its European Union customs agreement to include Cyprus and other new EU members...

Athens hospital reform working

A pilot program launched in December that aimed to drastically improve the handling of emergency cases...

Abduction charge for satanist

The convicted leader of a deadly satanic cult was yesterday charged by a prosecutor in central Greece with abducting a woman and impersonating a police officer while on a five-day furlough from prison.

Nationalists score at under-21 soccer match

A 19-year-old man was arrested for hauling down and tearing the Albanian flag flying at yesterday's Athens soccer match between the under-21 squads of Greece and Albania, on the eve of today's highly charged encounter between the two countries' senior teams.

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Distinguished poet dies at 86, to be buried in Athens on Friday : Poet Miltos Sachtouris died early yesterday morning at the age of 86...

Ministry orders doses of antidote : The Health Ministry has ordered 500,000 doses of an antidote to bird flu...

Neighborhood watch : Athens's municipal council yesterday said it would set up seven local crime prevention councils...

Omonia murder : Two drug addicts fatally beat a third in central Omonia...

Deficit hike : The trade deficit increased by 3 percent to 2.24 million euros last January...

Disabled travel : Special coupons providing free travel on public transport to disabled citizens...

Springtime : A field of wildflowers on the slopes of Mount Kissavos...

Seat appeal : A special electoral court will consider an appeal by two PASOK deputies...

Work site death : A 17-year-old foreign laborer, whose name was not made public, was crushed to death...

Criminal cache : Police yesterday arrested a 49-year-old man from Tirnavos...


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EDITORIAL

It’s time to pay the bill The cash-raising measures announced by the government yesterday are no doubt painful. Regardless of the government's intentions, it was inevitable that the country would, at some point, have to pay the price of PASOK's reckless economic policies. The price tag is a hefty one and certainly not the one depicted in the Socialists' understated economic reports...

COMMENTARY

Who’s afraid of evaluation? University professors will go on strike today, protesting the periodic assessment of their teaching skills and research work. I suggest striking professors bring their student years to mind before answering a simple question: Who used to be afraid of examinations and evaluation? Surely not the hardworking and attentive students. Rather, it was the negligent and lazy ones.

OPINION

Interpreting Apostolos Vavilis Who is Apostolos Vavilis? Is he a genius of a crook or an innocent victim of the authorities on an heroic crusade tο save our country? Perhaps he is both these things at once... Vavilis's appearance in a television interview with the intrepid television journalist Makis Triantafyllopoulos did not really show his true nature. However, what was indisputably revealed was his natural talent for acting...

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