Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-04-22

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

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[01] Ships collide in port

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Ships collide in port

The "Eolos Express" was on a trial run in preparation for scheduled routes to Aegean islands that would be beginning in the coming days.

All 115 passengers on board, none of whom were injured, disembarked from the ship that remains docked and that will be carrying out its schedule after being inspected for its seaworthiness to be confirmed.

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer's message to FYROM for a solution to the name problem, the nationwide highschool examinations beginning on May 20, the Siemens scandal, and the decision of the UN's committee on compliance with the Kyoto Protocol requirements declaring Greece as non-compliant with the Protocol's guidelines for national systems for the estimation of anthropogenic emissions and greenhouse gases, giving the country three months to submit a plan of measures ensuring maintenance of the new national system of Greece, and rendering the country ineligible to participate in the mechanisms under Articles 6, 12 and 17 of the Protocol pending resolution of the question of implementation, were the main front-page items in Tuesday's dailies.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "The general examinations' opening date".

APOGEVMATINI: "17-year-old pregnant girl dies in the city dump - She was scavenging for food in the garbage and a truck killed her".

AVGHI: "Work, not slavery - Agricultural production depends on thousands of foreigners who earn up to 25 euros per day".

AVRIANI: "Main opposition PASOK in inertia until September - George Papandreou 'out of commission' due to his accident."

CHORA: "Major share packages change hands in MIG and Postal Savings Bank - Commerzbank buys 5 per cent of MIG".

ELEFTHERI ORA: "We are offering FYROM the manna and they give us gall in return - Despite Dora�s (Bakoyannis, Foreign Minister) generous offer to Skopje, they toughen their positions".

ELEFTHEROS: "Which medicines we will pay - The (social security funds' approved) medicines-list returns after the spiralling of the pharmaceutical expenses".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Earth does not celebrity today - The world Earth Day finds Greece 'suspended' from the Kyoto Protocol".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "We were 'suspended' from Kyoto - UN committee's decision an international humiliation for Greece ".

ESTIA: "PASOK's outrageous lies - Charges on OTE (Hellenic Teleommunications Organisation)".

ETHNOS: "Temporary 'hope' trade - Blue (colour of ruling party New Democracy) hiring in public sector 'behind the back' of ASEP (Civil service hiring examinations board)".

KATHIMERINI: "Greece out of the Kyoto mechanisms - The only country named for insufficient measurement of pollutants".

LOGOS: "Scheffer sends message to FYROM for immediate solution - Crvenkovski protests to UN over Greece's veto".

NIKI: "Crucified consumers - Uncontrollable wave of price hikes on the market".

RIZOSPASTIS: "The slaves (migrant workers) rebelled against landowners and troublemakers� arms and whips, in Ileia".

TA NEA: "2 percent of Siemens' turnover went to two large Greek parties".

TO VIMA: "Slaves and strawberries - Images of 1900 in the fields of Ileia prefecture - The landowners, the middle-men, and the land laborers".

VRADYNI: "Nationwide high school examinations: The new changes - Package of measures to secure confidentiality of the exam topics".

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