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Major tourism push Measures include 125-million-euro campaign promoting Greece The government yesterday announced its largest public relations program for Greek tourism, which will involve 45 million euros to be spent next year, with another 20 million euros per year for the next four years.

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EU predicts 2004 deficit at 2.4 pct

In its autumn report on EU economies, the European Commission yesterday forecast that Greece's public deficit next year will be double the 1.2 percent of GDP predicted by the government.

A longer wait for Green Cards

The Interior Ministry will table draft legislation within the next few days to extend the deadline for the issuing of residence and work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants living in Greece, ministry sources said yesterday.

Spotlight on Greeks of Turkey

Athens yesterday expressed satisfaction at a newspaper report that a Turkish parliamentary committee has acknowledged past state discriminatory policies against Turkey's Greek minority.

An Olympian dream for 2004

In a surprise move 10 months before the start of the summer Olympics, Athens 2004 officials yesterday leaked a proposal to relocate a track-and-field event from the capital to ancient Olympia, where the Games were held in antiquity.

Twins return home after separation op

Two baby Siamese twins from Greece, successfully separated earlier this month by surgeons in Rome, returned to their native Thessaloniki yesterday afternoon after being discharged from the hospital.

IN BRIEF

Washington expresses faith in Greece organizing safe Games : US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher yesterday expressed the department’s faith...

Greece faces EU inspectors over 21 cases of alleged violations : Environment and Public Works Ministry officials are today due to face a delegation of visiting inspectors...

Spain upholds massive bail : Spain’s Constitutional Court yesterday upheld the 3 million euros in bail imposed on the Greek captain...

Hospital strike : State hospitals across the country will only be handling emergency cases today and tomorrow...

Cypriot ‘provocation’ : Cypriot government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides yesterday criticized as a “provocation”...

Civil aviation : Officials from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are currently in Athens for talks about flight routes...

Dog killer : A former security guard at the Athens Georgios Yennimatas Hospital, Ioannis Manousos...

Plaka murder : The 52-year-old companion of a 50-year-old businesswoman found dead in her Plaka apartment on Wednesday morning yesterday confessed...

Excess passengers : The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) yesterday apologized to people traveling...

Greek-Turkish talks : Senior Greek and Turkish diplomats are to meet in Ankara today...


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EDITORIAL

Unique opportunity "There has been great progress in tourism services,» Prime Minister Costas Simitis said yesterday at an interministerial committee meeting on tourism that was attended by 10 ministers. Notably, the prime minister said that Greece now provides a «wide range of high-quality services.»

COMMENTARY

Reassembling the party PASOK is scrambling to reassemble party officials so as to assemble a battleworthy lineup in time for the elections. Some of the so-called senior ruling party cadres appear willing to contribute to that effort, although they have been shoved aside by the prime minister. According to reformist officials, the aim is to forge an alliance - even a temporary one - with PM Costas Simitis's important in-party rivals and those medium-level figures that appeal to the Socialists' traditional party base. The vanguard of the reformist bloc inside PASOK believes it can shape the conditions for the emergence of a «social majority,» that is a broad center-left coalition, like in the early 1980s when, under the leadership of the late Andreas Papandreou, PASOK attracted the bulk of anti-rightist forces that were willing to push for the much-hyped «change.»

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