Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-10-07

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CONTENTS

[01] PM: Alert not over, the effort continues

[02] Alexandros Tombazis, artist, writer and eco-architecture pioneer

[03] ASE opening: Decline

[01] PM: Alert not over, the effort continues

Addressing his ruling PASOK party's parliamentary group, Papandreou said that even if Eurostat revises upwards the Greek fiscal deficit and debt, "we will not alter our targets and it will not be necessary to take additional measures".

The European Commission is slated to finalise the exact level of fiscal deficit and public debt of all EU member states for the period 2006-2009 within the month, according to an announcement Wednesday by a spokesman for EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn.

"We have a patriotic duty for the country to move forward. We are doing away with established mentalities. Through painful measures, we are making a huge, collective effort, regardless of any political cost, to change Greece," the premier stressed.

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[02] Alexandros Tombazis, artist, writer and eco-architecture pioneer

The recipient of more than 110 awards in Greek and international competitions, Tombazis is the designer of many public and private buildings, hospitals, museums, parks, hotels residences and places of worship in Greece and abroad.

From the ongoing revamping of the Pedion tou Areos Park in downtown Athens to the Museum of Vergina central building, to the recent (Roman Catholic) Church of the Most Holy Trinity in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal, Tombazis' inspired and pioneering design has left its mark on modern European sculpture.

The fourth largest church in the world, the decoration of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, is inspired by Byzantine and Orthodox art, indicative of Tombazis' unique talent for combining the old with the new.

Tombazis is also a prolific writer, artist and photographer, and continues to travel around the world, putting down his impressions in his paintings, sketches and photographs.

His new book, "Ecological Thought and Architecture", which will circulate in November by Melissa publications, is addressed to the wider public and aims to acquaint the public with bioclimatic architecture, while the renovated Pedion tou Areos Park is also slated to reopen in November complete with 90,000 new plants and trees, two renovated theaters and a new skateboard park.

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[03] ASE opening: Decline

All individual sector indices were moving downwards with the biggest gains in Insurance, up 3.11 percent; and Public Utilities, up 1.80 percent.

The biggest losses were in Food and Beverages, down 1.45 percent and in Industrial Products, down 0.66 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 0.88 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was down 0.49 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was down 0.02 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 25 were up, 26 were down, and 22 were unchanged.

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