Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-02-01

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CONTENTS

[01] Edu minister in London

[02] ASE opening: Big rise

[03] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] Edu minister in London

On Wednesday night, Diamantopoulou will deliver a lecture at the Greek Observatory of the London School of Economics on the theme "Reforming the Greek Universities".

The minister will give a press conference in the British capital on Thursday.

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[02] ASE opening: Big rise

Individual sector indices were moving upward nearly across the board, with the only losses in Telecoms, down 2.12 percent.

The biggest gains were in Health, up 5.48 percent; and Chemicals, up 3.86 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was up 1.68 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was up 1.50 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 2.36 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 86 were up, 13 were down, and 11 were unchanged.

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[03] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The economy and regular inspection by the EU-IMF troika and the crisis in Egypt were the main front-page items in Athens' dailies on Tuesday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Working hours in public services changing at Troika's demand".

AVGHI: "Life sentence - Berlin advancing plan for European permanent austerity".

DIMOKRATIA: "30 years occupation - What the 'permanent fiscal balance' means for Greece".

ELEFTHERI ORA: "e-Governance unconstitutional".

ELEFTHEROS: "Fear of wave of migrants from N. Africa".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Extra VAT for 800,000 businesses".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Revolt hanging from a thread - Mubarak collapsing, despite EU-US desire to salvage his policy".

ESTIA: "Huge blame for the deficits".

ETHNOS: "5 Richter from Troika for working people - New wave of upsets in private sector".

IMERISSIA: "Labor and social security fronts opening up - Five new demands by Troika".

KATHIMERINI: "Ultimatum to Mubarak".

LOGOS: "Egypt and the domino of uprisings".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Timetable for exit from (European) debt crisis".

NIKI: "Increases from you, strikes from us - February will turn out to be the hottest month of the year".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Uprising of the Egyptian people - Imperialist aspirations for control of the developments".

TA NEA: "The Merkel package for Greece and Europe".

VRADYNI: "Settlement of outstanding tax cases with no end - Finance ministry decision sends settlement-seekers back to the Tax Bureau offices".

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