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Children from the "Smile of a Child" organization for missing and exploited children and members of the Karpathos island association "Dimitra" sang Christmas carols for Prime Minister George Papandreou at the Maximos Mansion government headquarters on Thursday, Christmas Eve.

GreeceA's 2010 budget, which is aimed to start chipping away the countryA's soaring deficit, was due to be passed through Parliament last night following further arguments between PASOK and New Democracy about who is to blame for the poor state of the economy.

Main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras termed the 2010 state budget, tabled by the PASOK government, as "non-transparent regarding its perspectives", while speaking in Parliament on Wednesday night.

The Tuesday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance The European Commission's quarterly report on the eurozone and comments on the Greek economy, the parliamentary debate on the 2010 State Budget and the Tax Bureau's stepped up audits starting from Jan.

GreeceA's political parties reverted to type yesterday, as they slugged it out in Parliament during the debate about the 2010 budget, just a few days after a rare show of unity during which all sides had agreed to the necessity of measures against corruption.

The Saturday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance The sweeping reforms expected in the new taxation legislation and proposals by ruling PASOK for new Parliamentary probes into major scandals were the main front-page items in Athens' dailies on Saturday.

In what appears to be a bid by the government to change the main topic of political discussion, 128 PASOK MPs have tabled requests for Parliament to investigate four of the biggest corruption scandals that have rocked Greece over the last 11 years.

SUCCESSIVE Greek governments have managed to hoodwink the European Union over the size of the country's budget deficit and its public debt by blaming their predecessors and then promising to do better.

A controversial public works project to extend the Attiki Odos by more than 70 kilometers, which had been heralded by the previous New Democracy administration, was scrapped yesterday by the government which said that it would review the scheme and possibly revive it on a much smaller scale.

Prime Minister George Papandreou's remarks on the state of the economy on Wednesday at an Inner Cabinet meeting and the pressure from abroad, the first draft laws to be tabled in parliament and the over-indebted households, dominated the headlines on Thursday in Athens' newspapers.

The recently elected leader of conservative New Democracy, Antonis Samaras, yesterday announced that he would undertake the job of shadow minister of the economy, in view of the critical state of the countryA's finances.

Finance minister George Papaconstantinou anticipated turmoil for the Greek economy on the international markets over the next few months, noting that the attitude of the markets towards the Greek economy was mainly due to the lack of credibility inherited from the preceding government "which cannot be remedied in just a few days", speaking at a ...

A memorial service was held in Cyprus on Saturday marking the first year since the death of former President Tassos Papadopoulos.

Main opposition New Democracy 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.

Newly elected main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras met on Friday the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos at the Archdiocese in Athens .

New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said it was A'a givenA' that his party would back current Greek President Karolos Papoulias for a second term in office rather than oppose his re-election and force early general elections.

A main opposition New Democracy local office in the Toumba district of Thessaloniki was targeted by arsonists late Tuesday night.

Newly elected main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras will head for Bonn, Germany this week to participate in a European People's Party conference, hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party.

The economy, developments in main opposition New Democracy and a forthcoming summit on climate change in Copenhagen mostly dominated the headlines in the Sunday editions of Athens' newspapers.

Main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras, addressing the conference of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, set as preconditions for a change in the growth model and the country's exit from the economic crisis, the widening of taxable material, the acquittal of entrepreneurship, the handling of market deficiencies ...