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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-05-17
CONTENTS
[01] PASOK's Euro-Parliament candidates
[02] Mild quake west of Athens
[03] Holiday season heats up amid concerns over econ crisis
[01] PASOK's Euro-Parliament candidates
Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou on Sunday afternoon
announced his party's candidate slate for the upcoming European
Parliament elections, picking the party's current spokesman, George
Papaconstantinou, to head up the ballot, with a serving MP second on
the list.
After Sylvana Rapti, Papandreou announced that current MEP Stavros
Lambrinidis, a close aide to Papandreou when the latter was foreign
minister, will be third in line.
"These elections are not a referendum, they are our decision for the
Europe and Greece we want; to end with the policies of yesterday,"
Papandreou said in announcing the list from his party headquarters.
PASOK picked up eight MEP spots in the previous Euro-elections in 2004
and will now vie for the 22 MEP positions Greece holds, down from 24 in
2004.
Following Lambrinidis, the candidates are Chrysoula Saatsoglou; George
Stavrakakis; current MEP Marilena Koppa; current MEP Anni Podimata;
Kritonas Arsenis; Spyros Danellis and Dimitris Droutsos, Papandreou's
diplomatic adviser.
[02] Mild quake west of Athens
A mild earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale was recorded at
2:59 p.m. (12.59 GMT) in the Corinthian Gulf, west of Athens, on
Sunday. According to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's
Geophysical Institute, the quake had an epicentre 16 kilometres SW of
the village of Dovrena, in Viotia prefecture.
[03] Holiday season heats up amid concerns over econ crisis
Visitors overlook the functioning Roman-era Herodus Atticus Odeon
beneath the southern side of the Acropolis in downtown Athens on a
sunny Sunday afternoon in the Greek capital, 17 May 2009. Amid the
ongoing international economic crisis, local tourism officials and
business owners are concerned over a possible decrease in tourist
arrivals and revenues in the east Mediterranean country, whose economy
depends heavily on the tourism sector. ANA-MPA/EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
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