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‘Violence does not offer the answer’...
Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis (center) is seen yesterday at a meeting in Paris of her European Union counterparts that was called to discuss the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Following the meeting, the EU called for a 'permanent ceasefire' in the region and for access to be granted to humanitarian aid. The EU then joined the US, the United Nations and Russia, the so-called Quartet, to demand an immediate ceasefire. |
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Crime detection dallying
A number of criminal investigations have piled up which the Greek police force has found itself unable to solve.
Some of these, such as the murder of a police special guard in 2005 and a several attacks with explosive devices, are too serious to be simply filed away and forgotten.
Other - more recent - examples include the injury by gunfire of a student in the Athenian suburb of Peristeri and an attack against a bus carrying a squad of riot police, also by gunfire. Both of these very serious cases remain unsolved. |
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2008: The end of illusions
Even before the year started, it was evident that 2008 would be difficult, mainly because of the storm clouds gathering on the horizon as the housing market crashed in the United States. At the time, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and his minister for the economy, Giorgos Alogoskoufis, were adamant that the Greek economy was «armor-plated.» The fortifications, if they did exist, were useless: The crisis was here even before the storm crossed the Atlantic. |
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