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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-12-26
CONTENTS
[01] Interior Minister Pavlopoulos on State-Church relations
[01] Interior Minister Pavlopoulos on State-Church relations
Internal Affairs, Public Administration and Decentralisation Minister
Prokopis Pavlopoulos, in an interview with the "Vima" newspaper on
Saturday, following the announcement by Prime Minister Costas
Karamanlis of the new revision of the Constitution, proposed for there
to be "no changes in the Constitutional provisions for the relations
between the State and the Church, the primary shareholder and the
electoral law."
Codifying the government's priorities in the revision of the
Constitution, Pavlopoulos made clear that "the government does not
intend to accept the separation of the Church and the State, does not
intend to propose the change of the electoral law provisions and
neither the amendment of Article 14 which settles the incompatible
capacities between mass media owners and of all those who undertake
public works."
On his part, Minister of State Theodoros Roussopoulos, in an interview
with the Sunday edition of "Eleftherotypia" newspaper, proposed the
hiring of big international companies for the reorganisation of the
public sector, which will allow the creation of "a small and flexible
government formation."
Roussopoulos noted that "only the prime minister knows when the
(cabinet) reshuffle will take place," but that "we should not expect
major changes on a level of persons."
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