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Olympic Village opens Two weeks ahead of Games, projects come on line every day The countdown to the Athens Games, which open in two weeks exactly, continues today with a seminal event - the opening of the Olympic Village.

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Transport projects completed

One of the largest construction projects of recent years, the tunneling through mountains at the notorious Kakia Skala cliff face on the Athens-Corinth highway, was handed over partially to the public yesterday...

PASOK fights ND for the center

PASOK, the main opposition party, fought back to regain the precious political center after Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday intensified his claim that his conservative New Democracy party is «in the social center» and represents «the truly progressive faction.»

Phone line to monitor price levels

Restaurants and cafes are trying to keep prices down but there are still instances of profiteering...

A ‘lockdown’ at Hellenikon

The final security inspection of Olympic venues at the Hellenikon Olympic Complex before it was locked and handed over to the Greek police was completed yesterday at the Canoe/Kayak Slalom Center.

Greek ‘Interpol agent’ was disturbed Belgian

A man claiming to be a Greek Interpol agent with information that Islamic terrorists had arrived in Brussels from Greece...

IN BRIEF

Church opposes cultural center, not place of worship, archbishop says : Archbishop Christodoulos yesterday said that the Greek Church did not oppose plans to build a mosque in Athens...

Multilingual surgeons available for set fee during Olympics : A network of 300 doctors, many multilingual, will be offering their services to foreigners visiting the capital...

Popular comic actress dies at 81 : The much-loved actress and singer Rena Vlachopoulou, best known for her comic roles, died yesterday at the age of 81...

Hotel workers : Staff of hotels in Athens and Piraeus yesterday reiterated threats to strike during the Olympic Games...

Australian concerns : Australian Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday that he was concerned about the safety...

EKAB action : Unionists representing National First Aid Center (EKAB) staff are today due to decide whether to continue with strike action...

Extradition request : Authorities in Serbia-Montenegro yesterday lodged a formal request for the extradition of a key suspect...

Hash trawl : Thessaloniki coast guard officers yesterday arrested a 45-year-old man after discovering nearly half a kilo of cannabis...


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EDITORIAL

The tourism slump In response to the serious slump in the Greek tourism industry, in a year during which it expected to capitalize on Athens's hosting of the Olympic Games, Tourism Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced a 30-million-euro advertising campaign. This is a welcome move, in the light of poor marketing in the past years, but alone it will not suffice to solve the problem.

COMMENTARY

Shared prospects It's only an opinion poll but still, it is quite revealing about public trends in EU member states. According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, 79 percent of EU citizens are in favor of a European Constitution while 15 percent are against. Even in Britain, traditionally a Euroskeptic country, the figures are 51 and 34 percent respectively.

OPINION

A costly obsession The cost of organizing the Olympics in a climate of obsession with security measures has been much greater than even the most pessimistic of us could have imagined at the beginning of this seven-year marathon. We already knew about the International Olympic Committee's entourage of contractors and organizers - a fact which aroused public mistrust. But no one could have anticipated the disastrous consequences of the September 11 attacks.

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