Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-07-28

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Cruiseships collide in Piraeus

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Cruiseships collide in Piraeus

The accident occurred as the Maltese-flagged "Zenith", with 1,819 passengers and a 619-member crew aboard, rammed into the stern of the Greek-flagged "Aegean Pearl", which had 504 passengers and a 349-member crew aboard, as the latter was anchored at the Akti Xaveriou pier.

Caption:ANA-MPA file photo of a cruiseship in the port of Pireaus

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The 'new era' in relations between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia, the new Municipal Servants' Code, the Siemens affair, the FYROM issue, and the rumors of a new "businessmen's" political party, were the main front-page items in Monday's dailies.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Thousands of municipal employees in line for transfer - How they can change service and transfer to other public sector agencies".

APOGEVMATINI: "New era in Ecumenical Patriarchate-Moscow Patriarchate relations", noting that, after eight years of tension, the two most powerful leaders of Orthodoxy once again in contact, and adding that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Moscow Patriarch Alexius, with their joint liturgy on Sunday in Kiev (marking the 1020th anniversary of the conversion of Ukraine Russians to Orthodoxy) they sent the message that unity comprises an attainable goal.

AVRIANI: "Three more PASOK (main opposition party and former government) cadres 'burned' - Implication in the Siemens 'black' accounts and the kickbacks for the C4I (Athens 2004 Olympic Games security system, which was never delivered)".

CHORA: "Mamma mia! Rumors of parties of economic magnates and messiahs, transfers and business in a problematic market of 10 million people. Who are trying to combine money and politics, and why".

ELEFTHEROS: "He planted bomb at Maximos Mansion (government headquarters) - The Economy minister (George Alogoskoufis), with his proposal for co-government with PASOK".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "The 'damned' of Patras", adding that 'they escaped the hell of Afghanistan seeking a better tomorrow, and met misery and poverty", referring to "a thousand people living as a separate community in a three-stremmas (prime) land plot they've 'taken over' in the coastal zone of Patras, a few meters from the port".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "They're playing with the '152' (the number of ruling New Democracy MPs in the 300-member parliament, following the recent return of Independent MP Costas Koukoudimos to the ND ranks) - Koukodimos returned, but it doesn't seem like he brought 'spring' to ND".

ESTIA: "Political vacuum being created, if ND's and PASOK's decline continues".

ETHNOS: "The most-sought (university) Schools rising (in base entrance grades/points) - Estimated rise of up to 550 grade points in Education, Law Schools".

TA NEA: "One of the drivers of 17N (the 17 November terrorist group that was broken up by police in 2002, and its members prosecuted and imprisoned in 2003) is still at large - Revelation to TA NEA by Vassilis Tzortzatos", the 17N member known by the code-name of "Stamatis", who is in Korydallos prison serving a sentence of 4 times life plus 25 years for participation in 33 17N activities, including 7 assassinations.

VRADYNI: "The time of the social state has come - Measures of support for the non-privileged".

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