In Brief
EU UNHAPPY
Brussels pulls Greece up for its failure on environmental targets The European Commission said yesterday that Greece is one of the six EU countries that it will take legal action against for failing to provide information in the effort to combat climate change. Greece, Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy, Malta and Luxembourg have been sent final warnings for not supplying technical data about their greenhouse gas emission targets. Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said that Greece had also fallen behind Brussels’s targets for achieving good water quality for all rivers, lakes, coastal waters and ground water by 2015. CHANGING TIME Clocks go forward on Sunday Clocks will go forward by one hour on Sunday. The measure, which will be implemented across the European Union, means that the time will change at 3 a.m. on Sunday. Summer time will last until the last Sunday of October, which falls on the 28th. Alex investigation The third of five boys accused of killing 11-year-old Alex Meshivili told a magistrate yesterday that he witnessed the fight that led to the boy’s death but did not take any part in it. The 13-year-old Albanian boy said that he was part of the group of five schoolboys who verbally abused Alex in the center of Veria, northern Greece, more than 13 months ago. He said the group chased Alex and then some of the boys pushed the child, causing him to fall and fatally hit his head on a marble step. One of two brothers who were allegedly part of the group is due to testify today. Illegal immigrants Two Albanian nationals were arrested at Xirolofou, near the Greek-Albanian border, when the truck in which they were transporting 13 illegal immigrants crashed into another vehicle, authorities said. The two suspects, including the driver, tried to escape from the accident scene but were caught shortly afterward by a border patrol. Authorities said they have detained 52 illegal immigrants from Albania in the Epirus region in the last 24 hours. Masked attackers Three masked men broke into a home in Koropi, eastern Attica, late on Wednesday and physically attacked a couple and their 16-year-old son living at the house, police said yesterday. The assailants also fired two shots into the air but did not steal anything.
