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Greece suspends team sports Government takes measure to avoid further fan violence after death of supporter on Thursday No official team sports will take place in Greece for the next 15 days, the government decided yesterday as a measure to prevent further violence between fans following the death of a supporter on Thursday during a fight involving some 500 hooligans.

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EU funds get green light

The European Commission gave Greece the green light yesterday on its aid spending plans, paving the way for Athens to receive EU payments of -20 billion over the next seven years.

Study of seismic fault underway

Greek scientists are participating in an international study aimed at monitoring the North Anatolian Fault, one of the world's most active earthquake zones near Istanbul, so that they can forecast potentially catastrophic earthquakes.

Mother of Alex keeps hope alive

The mother of 11-year-old Alex Meshivili, who has been missing for some 13 months, said yesterday that she has not given up hope of finding her son alive and pleaded with authorities to allow a Belgian police expert to help solve the case.

Price row hits sales of lamb

Stockbreeders yesterday occupied slaughterhouses and blocked road junctions in northern Greece following a dispute with merchants over the minimum price for their lambs and goats, whose meat is in demand because of the coming Orthodox Easter feast.

Faulty bus batch puts passenger lives at risk

A batch of 121 natural gas-powered buses recently purchased by transport authorities are putting passengers' lives at risk and costing the government heavily in lost productivity, it was revealed yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Economics professor takes over helm of troubled civil servants' fund : The former rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business, Andreas Kintis, was named yesterday...

Greece called to reduce deaths : The European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot yesterday urged Greece to do more to reduce the number of road deaths...

Moschato hold-up : Two robbers armed with a gun and a hand grenade yesterday stole two sacks with 35,000 euros in cash from a Pyrsos security truck...

Wrong track : A man was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning while helping 10 illegal immigrants board a train from Thessaloniki...

Morning blast : An explosion rocked the center of Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece, early yesterday causing the destruction of a store...

Weapons found : Police arrested three men yesterday in Therisou, close to Crete's city of Hania, and are searching for two others after the men were discovered in possession of more than a dozen weapons...


THIS WEEKEND

Saturday : Transport Minister Michalis Liapis pays an official visit to Bulgaria to hold talks with his counterpart Petar Mutafchiev and the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev...

Sunday : President Karolos Papoulias visits Messolongi to attend events on the 181st anniversary of the uprising against Ottoman rule...


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Foreign Minister...
EDITORIAL

Forced to act on Olympic Airways For the past 15 years, successive Greek administrations have been extremely reluctant to impose a solution for the troubled Olympic Airlines (formerly known as Olympic Airways) state carrier. Of course that only meant bequeathing the problem to their successors. Hence, pressure grew as debts soared and potential buyers became more difficult to find. Finding a solution today is much harder than it was yesterday and so it goes.

COMMENTARY

Same errors are still errors The conservative government often tries to absolve itself of guilt by hinting that PASOK opposition is equally guilty of mistakes committed during the Socialist administrations. But if this sort of reaction turns into a pet conservative tactic, it will harm the party as well as the country for the plain reason that New Democracy will hesitate to correct past ills. ND's reaction is a non-starter because the election result of March 2004 was supposedly a slap in the face of PASOK cadres for their scandalous lifestyles. People wanted a new government that would restore morality in social and economic life. Voters need no further proof of PASOK sins.

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