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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-05-29
CONTENTS
[01] PASOK on OTE, Deutsche Telekom company
[01] PASOK on OTE, Deutsche Telekom company
Main opposition PASOK party spokesman George Papaconstantinou,
commenting on the issue of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation
(OTE) on Thursday, said that "today, OTE's profits for the first
quarter were announced and by a diabolical coincidence, the figure of
140 million euros was announced. In other words, precisely the excess
price received by the Hellenic state to deliver the management."
Also referring to the reply given by the Economy Minister George
Alogoskoufis, at a press conference earlier, to a question on telephone
tapping in Germany that "such things have also happened in Greece,"
Papaconstantinou said that (it is deduced from the reply) "the
government does not consider the issue of phonetapping serious."
PASOK's economy rapporteur Louka Katseli also commented on the tabling
in Parliament of OTE's agreement with the Deutsche Telekom company,
saying that "the market has already judged this 'marriage' and its
propects. The Organisation's share is tumbling. We shall have the
opportunity in Parliament to highlight the individual aspects of the
agreement which render it very unprofitable."
Katseli also pondered "what exediency lies behind the decrease in the
state's participation percentage in OTE to 28 percent, that left the
Organisation unprotected from an aggressive buyout. Why didn't it go
ahead with open tendering to find a strategic investor and chose this
untransparent process."
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