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Parties got pre-election cash boost Source: ND, PASOK ‘got 2 mln euros’ The country's two main political parties allegedly received the equivalent of 2 million euros from German technology giant Siemens ahead of Greek general elections in 2000 while a smaller - now defunct - party received another 450,000 euros, Kathimerini has been told by a former Siemens official on trial in Germany for corporate corruption.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Passengers safely evacuated after ferry hits rock in Aegean

Most of the 485 passengers aboard a ferry that hit a reef near the Aegean island group of Oinousses on Saturday afternoon were safe in Piraeus by yesterday evening.

Water wasted at all levels

Greeks, who are second only to citizens of the USA in per capita water consumption, have a lot of work to do to save the precious resource, according to a study by professors of Athens Agricultural University that lists a number of serious problems.

FYROM pushes ‘minority’ issue

Kathimerini has learnt from sources and reports in Skopje that the Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Nikola Gruevski has raised the issue of a «Macedonian minority» in Greece with United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz. Gruevski is believed to have demanded that people who left FYROM during the Greek civil war should have their nationality and property restored.

Irate policeman in car chase after family row

A policeman who provoked a huge car chase on the Athens-Lamia national highway on Saturday after stealing a police patrol car, following alleged threats to kill his wife's sister, was yesterday in detention.

IN BRIEF

Police blame fire on arsonists after finding gas canisters : A large blaze that broke out in a branch of the clothing retailer Sprider in Lykovrisi, north of Athens...

Cessna pilot unharmed : The pilot of a Cessna light aircraft forced to conduct an emergency landing...

Mountain marathon : A Spaniard and a Greek clinched the top two places in yesterday's Mount Olympus Marathon...

Hotel thief : Police in Halkidiki were yesterday questioning a 37-year-old man...

Hiking woes : A 56-year-old Greek hiker was found dead in the mountains of Pentalofo...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to meet Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos at 10.30 a.m...

Tuesday : The Greek Center of European Studies and Research (EKEME) is hosting a round-table discussion...

Wednesday : The 22nd World Congress on Dance Research begins in Athens...

Thursday : Institute of International Relations (IDIS) is hosting the 17th international summer seminar...

Friday : The third panhellenic oncology forum on «Creative Dialogue with the Greeks of the Diaspora» will take place...


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Christian unity... Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (l) and Pope Benedict XVI appealed for Christian unity yesterday during a joint mass at St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

EDITORIAL

Zero tolerance on Siemens Greek officials have pledged zero tolerance over the scandal involving the bribes of German technology giant Siemens to Greek political parties and politicians. The cash value is simple: The management of the electronics company should reveal the entire truth about who was bribed by German officials until 2005, as well as when and how. Or it will have to be left out from all future competitions for state contracts. A government decision should be enough to make sure that Siemens complies. In fact a ban from state contracts would send a strong signal to anyone who is after state contracts via dubious means.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Ships and islands From the time they settled on this peninsula and fanned out across its islands, the Greeks have been a seafaring nation. The demands of travel between distant ports, and the need to trade, drove the Greeks to conquer the seas. It was a matter of survival. Today the Greeks are the dominant force in international shipping, achieving this after the catastrophe of World War II, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and seamanship of individuals who risked great personal danger in order to succeed.

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