Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-06-14

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

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[01] Finnland's Hirvonen wins 56th Rally Acropolis

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Finnland's Hirvonen wins 56th Rally Acropolis

Latvala posted the best time in the final 33-km Aghii Theodori 2 stage on Sunday. Following the win, Hirvonen narrowed to seven points (55) his distance from front-runner and current world champion Sebastian Loeb (48, France/Citroen), who crashed out of the Rally on Saturday when his car hit a rock, careered off track and rolled repeatedly. Loeb was the winner of last year's Rally Acropolis.

The Rally Acropolis is the seventh round of the 12-round 2009 World Rally Championship.

Caption: Mikko Hirvonen of Finland, winner of the 56th Rally Acropolis that ended on Sunday in Greece. (ANA-MPA/V. Psomas)

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

Illegal migration, the planned increase in farmers's pensions and speculation of early general elections in September were the main front-page items in Sunday's newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Increases in farmers' penions, EKAS (low pension benefit)".

APOGEVMATINI: "The base passing grades for AEI and TEI (higher education) - Detailed charts for all the Schools".

AVGHI: "X-ray of the votes and abstention - V-PRC survey on behalf of Avghi".

AVRIANI: "Elections in September, with 'Sarkozy recipe', decided by Karamanlis".

CHORA: "They're crossing the borders with children as the bait - Uncontrolled inflow of illegal migrants a bomb with a slow-burning fuse".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Human sacrifices and Aris (Spiliotopoulos)-Meimarakis duo - 'Clean' ballots of election candidates, and reshuffle with a view to early general elections in autumn".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Ticket without return - Operation 'Order and Security' - With charter flights, ELAS (Greek Police) transporting 3,000 (illegal) migrants (back) to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Africa".

ETHNOS: "Plethora of contracts - Claims of hostile relations with the German giant (Siemens, under 3-year Mitsotakis government) belied".

KATHIMERINI: "Eight ministers recommend initiatives that must be made - Prime Minister keeps his hand closed".

LOGOS: "Prime minister steps up initiatives - Substantial changes awaited in government".

NIKI: "PASOK opts for aggressive tactics, aimed at pressuring the government so as to speed up the political developments".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Labor-wide class action against the new anti-labor attack - EU prepares new measures".

TO VIMA: "The lies are over - They're seeking revenues, cutting expenditures - Papathanassiou (economy and finance minister): The measures I intend to take..."

VRADYNI: "End to the 'good days' for the civil servants - The new salary scale".

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