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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-12-12
CONTENTS
[01] ND former minister says PASOK government 'trapped itself' with
pre-elections pledges
[02] Bombs neutralised at media social security, pension Funds offices
[01] ND former minister says PASOK government 'trapped itself' with
pre-elections pledges
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) MP and former minister Costis
Hatzidakis said on Saturday that the government has trapped itself with
its pre-elections commitments, addressing an event organised by the
Economic Chamber of Greece.
Hatzidakis said that, according to prime minister George Papandreou,
the biggest deficit faced by the country was a deficit in credibility.
"Let's hope that, in the coming months, we will not see that the
biggest deficit is a deficit in the seriousness with which the
government is handling the economy," he added.
He also accused the PASOK government of "arbitrarily inflating the
fiscal deficit", adding that the first measure taken by the new
government on the social security system was to rescind the preceding
ND government's measures to salvage the system.
[02] Bombs neutralised at media social security, pension Funds offices
Police bomb disposal experts on Saturday neutralised two home-made
explosive devices outside the Mass Media social security fund
(ETAP-MME) and the Athens Journalists pension fund (TSPEATH) in the
Neos Kosmos district of Athens, after an anonymous call to the private
television station ALTER.
The explosive devices had been placed in metal boxes.
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