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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-05-06
CONTENTS
[01] Superleague play-offs postponed
[02] Gov't assumes full responsibility
[01] Superleague play-offs postponed
The football matches between Olympiacos Piraeus-PAOK Thessaloniki and
AEK Athens-Aris Thessaloniki for the third day of the Superleague
play-offs scheduled for Thursday have been postponed, according to a
decision by the Greek Superleague authority following a police
request.
The full text of Superleague's announce is as follows:
"The Superleague following a Greek Police request, has decided to
postpone the matches of the 3rd day of the play-off scheduled to be
played on Thursday. The organising authority will announce a new the
date for the matches."
[02] Gov't assumes full responsibility
ANA-MPA/The government assumes the responsibility and political cost of
applying the harshest program for restructuring the economy, with a
complete sense of the responsibility, and commits itself to succeeding,
even without allies from the entire political spectrum, finance
minister George Papaconstantinou stressed Thursday in parliament as the
House began debate of the bill on the "measures for the implementation
of the support mechanism for the Greek economy by the eurozone member
countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)".
"We assume the responsibility for the country's last opportunity to do
over the next three years all that has not been done for decades. We
opted for the major structural changes, and will be judged on our
efforts," Papaconstantinou added.
Speaking at the first reading (in-principle) of the bill, he noted that
the draft law has been tabled under "urgent procedures" because a 9
billion euros government bond loan matures in two weeks and the country
will not be able to repay it without borrowing, and the only way is to
get the money from the country's European partners and the IMF.
"All our partners' parliaments are at this same time, deciding on the
three-year program to which we have committed. Will the Greek
parliament show that it commits?" he asked.
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